WITH MAC THROUGH AFRICA •
SIR,---Mr. Robert Manning is out of date in sayin2 that 'Africans . . . in the post office . . . must stand in a black line . . . while the White Only clerks do crossword puzzles.'
. I was recently in a 'line' with all colours in a Salisbury post office and we were all served by a European woman clerk, with no queue-jumping. Segregation in Rhodesian post offices, a Federal re- sponsibility, has gone.—Yours faithfully, JOIThl BIGGS-DAVISON.
House of Commons, SW!
[Robert Manning writes: 'Mr. Biggs-Davison is correct; the requirement was changed by law a year ago (I confused Salisbury, in recollection, with Johannesburg, where there are separate European and non-European lines). I am sorry that, under the im- pression that the law still stood in Rhodesia, I used it to illustrate the point I was making because the point itself is still, 1 fear, valid—its effects plainly visible in Salisbury. There is discrimination against Africans who run errands for Europeans; and it results, in practice, in a waste of time for which European employers have to pay.'—Editor, Spectator,]
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