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...Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...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 any education at all. Partly to take care of these, the African National Congress sponsored its network of secret, classes...
...teachers who are risking their freedom for the cause know full well that Minister Verwoerd will never rest until every bootleg school, every club and every knowledge crook is put out of business. After all, Minister Verwoerd has a cause of his own. "Natives," he once declared, "must be taught from childhood to realize that equality with the European is not for them...
Twelve Hours to Pack. "It is the policy of this government that the native will not own any ground in any European area," announced Native Affairs Minister Verwoerd. He ordered 60,000 people to prepare to leave their homes and move out to new settlements a safe number of antiseptic miles from Johannesburg's whites. The first batch of 150 families got marching orders at 6 p.m. one evening. "Greetings," said the order. "Kindly pack your belongings and be ready to load at 6 a.m." It came three days earlier than expected, and was accompanied...