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...Bureau and Native Affairs Department was cross-examining hundreds of Coloreds, and wherever they discovered enough "native blood" or "native associations," freely rescinding their privileges. The cross-examining was centered on the 30,000 Coloreds who have moved from Cape Province, their traditional home, to the hustling metropolis of Johannesburg (pop. 800,000). Their migration does not fit in with the Strydom government's apartheid (segregation) plans...
Since the South African government put the Bantu Education Act into effect last spring, scores of such schools have sprung up. especially in the area around Johannesburg. Though the Bantu Act did not actually deprive South African Negroes of their regular schools, it imposed a curriculum that was designed to do nothing less than to convince every Negro child that he is inferior. Last April, thousands of students boycotted their schools in protest. The Minister of Native Affairs, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, one of the architects of apartheid, retaliated by closing the boycotted buildings, thus leaving some 7,000 children without...
When Father Trevor Huddleston, head of St. Peter's Anglican Mission in Johannesburg, first heard the news, he knew that for one of his students it meant the opportunity of a lifetime. As a result of a visit that Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton had made while in the U.S., Kent School in Connecticut was offering for the first time a scholarship to a South African boy, and Father Huddleston found just the lad to take it. Last April he began to make the arrangements to send a 16-year-old Negro named Stephen Ramasodi...
...Communists. The government was also confronted by a second demonstration, a "Congress of the People," which brought together 4,000 Negroes, Indians and colored at the native location of Kliptown, outside Johannesburg. There South Africa's Communists made a determined effort to pull the three big non-white groups in South Africa into a single anti-government front. For the first time, the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress and the South African Colored People's Organization (all Communist infiltrated) sent delegates to sit on the same platform. More important, they sat alongside the Congress...
...Cinemogul Spyros Skouras flew into Johannesburg to add a new string of theaters to his 20th Century-Fox empire. He was reportedly prepared to pay $7,000,000 for Africa Theaters, Ltd., whose more than 200 movie houses would give him a virtual film monopoly in east, central and southern Africa...