Page 2 • The Chronicle. Saturday, February 2. 1980 I hey Were Both hvicted Frotn S. Africa Banned Woman Finds Local Ally By Yvette McCullough Staff Writer When Motlalepula Cha- baku, a South African The ologian who was banned from her country, came to town last week, she found an ally who had shared a similar plight. After her speech to the YWCA, Chabaku called guests’ attention back to the podium, where she had hugged Mrs Madie Hall Zuma of Winston-Salem. Mrs. Zuma, a native who married a black South African doctor and returned to South Africa with him, was called a hero by Ms. Chabaku for her role in black struggles there. “When the whites came and cleared out black resi dences for their own use, she stood in her home until she was forcibly evicted,” said the theologiai^. “Her daughter was my friend before they twk her to the' camp where she died,” she added. Referring to Mrs. Zuma, she said, “We here-wor- ship here.” Chabaku was in Winston- Salem as a guest of the YWCA. She is a lifelong agitator for the rights of her people in South Africa al though she presently lives in the United States. She was the founding member of the Black Women’s Fe deration of South Africa where she was a school teacher for 11 years and social worker for 13 years. During her visit, she spoke to students at Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State, she also spoke to the congregation of Grace U- nited Presbyterian Church and at the Human Relations Commission meeting. She told the members of the Human Relations Com mission that if all the human needs people have were met there would be no need for a “human rights organization.” “If we were all living members in the body of Christ we would have simi lar feeling for each other,” Chabaku said. “If some -one was in hunger or pain, then all should be sharing the pain and if someone was in joy then we all should have the opportuni ty to be joyful.” “Everything we have are God’s resources to be shared by all,” Chabaku continued. “Just like this is God’s time we have while are on earth, it was loaned to us and no human being has the tight to determine who should live and for how long or short. ’ ’ During her talk, Chabaku frequently referred to God as she. She later elabo rated why she referred to think of God as a woman. She said that she has been told the whenever you see the word man in the Bible it stands for woman too. ‘ ‘I learned in algebra that A is equal to B and that B is equal to A,” she explained. “Then if men stands for woman then woman stands for man. “So for a day why don’t you replace the word man with woman, since man stands for woman.” Chabaku said that often times women issues don’t have the primary attention Motalalepula Chabaku that men issues tend to have. She told of how in South Africa more money is allotted for a boys educa tion than for a girls. “Since funding is con trolled by men it tends to be a boy’s world,” she said. “It is hell for women to get funding for the YWCA, while the YMCA can get as much money as they can.” Since most people won der how she can advocate loving the South Africans after the way she was treated she told of how a white in country once asked for her forgiveness. The man she described was Afrikaaner, a man “who everything going for him,” He didn’t have to “stoop” so low as to ask forgiveness from a woman who was “landless in the home of her birth.” She said he apologized for the hate he had for her and because he “lowered” himself she had to forgive him. “Because of this he was isolated by his own peo ple,” Chabaku said. “But he helped me to come closer to the cross of Jesus Christ. “I learned that you should hate the wrong and not hate the evil doer.” Nigerian Offcials Tour WSSU Campus By Yvette McCullough Staff Writer A group of 12 Nigerian officials were the featured guests at Winston-Salem State University last Friday evening, capping a three month tour of four states in this country. The visitors were all se nior civil servants from the states of Anambra, Oyo and Bauchi. , They i have spent time in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Jacksonville, Fla. and North Carolina. S.H.O. Ibe, deputy per manent secretary of Aram- ba state’s Ministry of Works and Housing, said that, he , and his, col leagues had, learned a lot from both American suc cesses and errors in go verning techniques. He also said that, he found some similarities between Nigeria and North Carolina. Ibe said he sees that ,the rural areas of North Caroli na are having problems with the youth leaving and going to the “big city,” which is, very prevalent in Nigeria today. Ivan Mustain of the In ternational Institute of Pub lic Management told the Chronicle that .the institute specializes in helping deve loping countries. “We specifically help in the training of public admi- Stgff photo Bv McCulioujth Douglas Heam, planning director for the Human Services [r] converses with a Nigerian official. nistrations of developing countries,” he said. “Ni geria now has a civilian government and theylre here in this country to study state and local govern ments.” Mustain said that this is the second group of Nige rian officials to visit the U.S. In addition to touring Winston-Salem, the visitors also met with Howard Lee, secretary of natural re sources and community de velopment. The International Insti tute is a university-affi liated research and seminar center. It is located in Washington and is con cerned with international and public administration of both Western and East ern Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East and Latin America. While at WSSU the Nige rians were exposed to a panel discussion on the CETA Youth Programs. Participants in the discus sion were A1 Jacovec, Youth Coordinating Ser vices Center; Mrs. Eleanor Dobson, In-School Youth Work Experience; Mrs. Al- drenia Gaither,, Individua lized Experiment Project for High School Dropouts (ESR); Charles McIntyre, Cooperative Education for Out-of-School (WSSU); John Buey, Youth Commu nity Conservation Im provement Project and Ric ky Woods, Summer Youth Program. The guests were also given a dinner in their honor in the Red Room on the Campus of WSSU. The guests were sponsored lo cally by the Yadkin Val ley Economic Development District, Inc. The WSSU Student Government Asso ciation provided refresh ments and the National Council of Negro Women, provided dinner arrange ments. Griggs Appointed to Local Zoning Board Spurgeon Griggs Jr. has been appointed to the Zon ing Board of Adjustments to fulfill the unexpired term of Mrs. Mary S. Jeralds. Griggs, 28, is a former businessman and director of carpentry at the Urban League. The Howard Uni versity graduate is also chairman of the Winston- Salem Improvement Asso ciation. a group of residents concerned with solving pro blems in the black com munity. Mrs. Jeralds, a teacher in Thomasville, said she was unable to fulfill her three-year appointment. Griggs, whose term will expire Sept. 1981, said zoning is an important area that residents should know about. “Zoning and zoning laws have historically been areas that the black community has known the least about. (As a result) the zoning in East Winston is poor. The objective of trying to pro mote public safety has not been carried out in the black neighborhoods be cause of zoning laws and businesses being placed in these areas,” Griggs said. The WIn$ton*Salem Chronicle is published every Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Company, Inc. 516 N. Trade St. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. 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