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...been that his thirst for education took him to England six years ago, Patrick Matimba, 26, might have had quite an ordinary life as just one more Negro making out as best he could under the segregation laws of his native Southern Rhodesia. But. at an interracial dance near London, Patrick met and fell in love with a sturdy young blonde housemaid from Holland. A short time later the two married. When, after returning home alone, Patrick sent for his wife and baby daughter to join him, he became the center of the thorniest and most widely publicized racial dispute...
Though never before had the government had to deal with a case in which a Negro married a white woman, it found no legal way to keep Mistress Matimba out of the country. But since the Land Apportionment Act of 1941 forbids whites and blacks to live in the same community, the question arose: Just where could the Matimbas go? At first, Patrick, the son of a Negro Anglican priest, helpfully offered to become his own wife's servant -the only kind of Negro permitted to live among Europeans. Then Saint Faith's Anglican Mission, in the white...
...Unwanted. At a protest meeting, 350 farmers and their wives passed a resolution demanding that the government "stop this kind of thing." When Mistress Matimba went shopping, the white ladies of the village turned their backs on her. A tailor refused to accept her husband's trousers for dry cleaning. When Patrick entered a bank without removing his hat, a teller ordered him out for failing to show the proper respect for white depositors...
...Mistress Matimba collapsed after a miscarriage and had to be rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery. The white hospital let her in, but the superintendent bluntly told Patrick he could not see her-"even," as Patrick said later, "if dying.'' Frantic, Patrick transferred her to an African hospital where an operation was performed just in time...
...Patrick Matimba, the whole episode was proof that in multiracial Southern Rhodesia there is "very little hope that mutual tolerance and understanding will ever prevail. When the news got out that I had been banned from the European hospital, a European youth grabbed me by the tie in a fit of rage and nearly throttled me. He thought it was a crime that I should want to be beside my wife when...
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