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...government of Natal announced a major concession to its 250,000 Indians. Henceforth, the word "coolie" will be expunged from all textbooks in Natal. The gesture was not made because the British in Natal liked the Indians any better, but as a gesture of defiance to South Africa's white-supremacy Prime Minister Daniel Malan, whom they like even less...
South Africa's British (1,000,000) are clustered in Natal and Cape Province. They are mostly city folks-traders, bankers and bus drivers who have exported a little bit of Britain to South Africa. Against the Boers' fervent nationalism they have no spiritual counterforce. So long as they are making money (as they are), British South Africans tend to sit back and sip their tea while the Boers make the politics. And in their hearts many of them agree with the Nationalists' persecution of the Negroes. "The Dutchmen can handle the coons" is a frequent British...
...majority (8,500,000) are black Bantus. A third of them are still semibarbarous, living in kraals and reed huts on the native reserves; few speak the white man's language. Alongside the Bantus live 300,000 Indians, most of them shopkeepers and plantation laborers in sugar-growing Natal, and 1,100,000 Cape Colored, i.e., mulattoes, coffee-colored descendants of early Boer settlers...
...whose members belong to the secret Afrikaner Broederbond, launched an anti-Negro, anti-Jewish campaign. The Natives' Representative Council was summarily abolished. Appropriations for Bantu housing were slashed; native slums proliferated, breeding crime and misery. To cut down the number of opposition voters, Malan coolly disenfranchised the Natal and Transvaal Indians...
Unhappily, the film betrays its literary origin by stressing emotion rather than motion. It is the tale of the Rev. Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee), a simple Zulu minister who journeys from Ndotsheni, Natal to the great, bewildering city of Johannesburg to find his lost sister. There he discovers that she has become a prostitute in the squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim...