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The Rev. Reeves, exiled Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg and an outspoken critic of Apartheid, maintained that "the age of colonialism in South Africa is swiftly coming to an end".
The Nationalist government of South Africa solved the problems created by these different ethnic groups coming to live together through the simple expedient of keeping them as far apart as possible. "Verwoerd does not like a scrambled egg population", the Rev. Reeves said; "therefore he is trying to unscramble the...
He noted the statement of an African leader that the black African demonstrations when a Republic is declared May 29 "will be the last non-violent demonstrations in the near future". The Rev. Reeves did not speculate on the nature of these demonstrations but commented that "it would be the...
As an example of Apartheid's stranglehold on South Africa, the Rev. Reeves chose education. In 1954, when six-sevenths of all South African education was in the hands of the Church, the government announced that all schools were to be either nationalized or run without financial aid.
But the Rev. Reeves found a third possibility, closing the doors of his schools to prevent the government from using them. The Africans cried that depriving them of education was like depriving them of bread. The Rev. Reeves replied that his justification "depends on whether the loaf is poisoned".