African education
Sir: I think only three comments are necessary on your article of 10 April, 'Rhodesia: Education for what?' by an unnamed correspon- dent.
The first is that in southern Africa, Africans are not the only people who largely reject birth control and contraceptives. The Afrikaners—including thousands of them in Rhodesia—also do so, and with the forceful backing of both church and government, which forbids all advertising for contraceptives. Should Afrikaners also then be deprived of educa- tion?
The second point is simply that if one replaces the word 'white' in the article by 'Aryan', and 'Afri- can' by 'Jew', then much of it reads like some of the more in- human excuses advanced by the Nazis in 1935 for the introduction of the infamous Nuremberg laws in that year.
And finally, although your cor- respondent is not named, it is completely obvious that he or she is white. When one reads racial opinions from which it is child's play to deduce the skin colour of the writer, then the racial pre- judice and bias of those opinions is surely proved beyond doubt. L. Clarke 26 Kensington Gate, London w8
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