WITH MAC THROUGH AFRICA
S1R,---11 is a pity that your correspondent responsible for 'With Mac Through Africa' on February 19 has not bothered to keep abreast of recent liberal trends and developments in the Federation.
If he had he would have known :
(a) That the African population of Salisbury is about double that of Europeans; Europeans
(b) The Liquor Amendment Act of 1957 per-
(c) In 1956 the Southern Rhodesia Assembly glass of beer or any other alcoholic drink (excepting kaffir beer). . • ••
in this connection a further amendment was agreed to a motion amending the Immorality and Indecency Suppression Act : that the an African female.
mitted Africans to purchase European-type different from the claim '. . . It is against the Land Apportionment Amendment Act to permit Africans to stay at such hotels, and made to the Liquor Act (Amendment 35/59) may be guests of a resident or a person taking a meal in such a hotel (including intercourse between a European male and from the extravagant claim that Africans outnumber the Whites in Salisbury by twenty-five to one.
beer, ale and wine; and certain classes of Africans (i.e., those with a university degree, the law for an African to drink an ordinary Permitting Africans resident at a multi- racial hotel to consume on the premises any liquor (including spirits), also Africans who Africans). Act be amended to prohibit illicit sexual number 82,000; Africans in employment number 107,000. These are a little different MPs, etc.) to purchase spirits. This is a little 12/50 application can be made for hotels This does riot tie in with the statement would like also to point out that under • . . It is against the law for an African man to sleep with a white woman, but it is legal for a white man to sleep with an African woman.'
urs faithfully. D. T. M. WILLIAMS Assistant Information Attaché re °I the High Commissioner for Rhodesia and iv Yasaland. Rhodesia House, Strand, WC2 [Robe libe„rt Manning writes: 'Let us all praise !Arising trends in Southern Rhodesia, but I think claims too much: liber? .' his seems to me to have nothing to do with siu4lisation but simply with facts. They are, as I are nc):, and plainly stated. that "in Salisbury there whe many Africans for the capital of a Federation oner„e L.Africans outnumber whites twenty-five to is a "It% Williams, I take it, does not deny that this ped correct figure for the population ratio in the '(vation. Just what is he disputing? light) I should have added that regular beer and rest • wines may be purchased by Africans—on a be Acted basis. 1 seem to recall—as well as kaffir basi'' As for whether the additional refinements in WeycaalY restrictive laws mitigate in any appreciable
he e indignity that an African must endure it
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d,, „,,ants for strongeremselves. drink, 1 am willing to let readers • (ice th
pule) Come now, Mr. Williams, go back upstairs and Voter the rest of your facts. A motion was indeed (sisle through the Parliament nearly three years ago has en votes to eight), but to this day that motion we. not been acted on and the law stands as it was
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