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By CARIN BOCHER
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
Carin Bocher is an exchange
student from Germany ma
joring in sociology. This is
her second year at UNC and
she plans to finish her degree
in Germany.
She spent 18 months in South
Africa. Part of this time, she
worked for a newspaper,
where she got much of the
information for this article.
"I feel I have often given
priority to talking about the
wonderful time I personally
V
haa in bouth Africa," she says
about her stay. "But I would
like to communicate some of
the most perplexing and shock
ing aspects of my stay."
South Africa's earth is red
like the clay soil in North
Carolina. Red are the blossoms
of the Bougainvillia, the Kaffir
trees and aloes in the open
country. A purple haze hangs
over the slate grey mountains
along the east coast. The low
rolling hills in the southwest
are patterned like hyena skin
with yellow grass and brown
dry shrubs:
They all love the mountains
and the haze, the white
beaches and wide plains and
the cities.
people, three and a half million
"They" are 12 million black
white people and two million
"brown' people, mostly from
India.
Tensions arise when millions
of people with very different
traditions and ways of life,
and on different levels of
modernizact a have the right
to love ihe same country.
At present the white man
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. . . leased by the South African! government for 99 years.
A I bee's Pulitzer Drama
Opens Tomightlm Raleigh
appropriates to himself the
t,.me love and prescribes cow
he expects all to
together.
Two Kinds of Law
Ben Umzilikazi, bearded and
wearing a heavy green
military coat, stands in the
wooden panelled court room
of yfag Williams Town in the
Cape province.
He has killed a man.
The court procedures seems
endless. The statements have
to be translated from his X
"hosa language into English or
Afrikaans. Because the wit
nesses names seem too long
for the white officials to
remember, number signs are
hung around their necks.
There had been a celebration
in Umzilikazi's home
village a gathering of round
clay huts and everybody had
been drinking brown beer
(prepared by the women) out
of black calabasses.
Someone danced with
Umzilikazi's wife. So, he hit
him with his knopkiere,
wooden stick with a round end.
The man sank into the grass.
The next morning the white
policemen arrived.
The judge sighs. "We never
come to know all the details.
They just think in different
terms than we do and nobody
realizes the consequences of
his statements."
The judge decides upon four
years of imprisonment.
Tribal law exists side by
side with the Roman-based
European law. It is often up
to the judge to make the
decision which one to apply.
In the old tradition of paying
lobola, that is buying the old
man's daughter with cows still
intact, has somebody just
several wives according to the
Campus
Calendar
custom or can the city dweller
oe accused of adultery?
A Country Divided
The problem is particularly
difficult because the white man
apes not consult the African
tmnse- Some cooperation is
now being achieved in the
Transkei, the first Bantustan
of South Africa, which was
declared independent in 1953
by the late prime minister
Dr. Verwoerd.
The white government wants
to split the country into white
and black aress so that the.
races will live nhvsirallv
separated. The black areas are
planned to administer
themselves, to finally become
autonomous and connected
with white South Africa as a
South African Com
monwealth. The Transkei is an area
somewhat the size of
Switzerland between the Great
Kei and the Ntamvuna River,
between Lesotho and . the
riviera, like the wild coast
of the Indian Ocean.
Red earth breaks out of the
green grass hills like bleeding
wounds. . .the marks of
erosion.
The South African taxpayer
has to pay about 16 million
dollars per year for the
development of just one black
area which is economically
totally unfit to support itself.
So in spite of independence
the white administrator runs
the area, except for mutual
consultation in educational and
other domestic matters.
Utopian Future?
It is the white man who
decides which parts of the
country will be "home" for
the millions of Africans He set
aside 14 percent of the land
and 23 percent of the
economically exploitable part
of the country for them. The
industrialized areas the white
man will of course keep to
himself.
AH the project does is give
the masses and world opinion
some hope "separate but
equal" status of the African,
for voting rigbfe in his areas.
In the white area, where
he always will have to look
for work, he will be treated
like a kind of guest worker
under the conditions of apart
heid and second rate
citizenship decided upon by the
white people.
But even the development
of black areas, which though
totally insufficient, at least
allows for some self-identity
among the Africans lies in
Utopian future: At present the
government leases the houses
in the ghetfcfc around the white
man's cities for 99 years. . .
Red Witch-Hunting
"I have never sabotaged, all
I did was talk to the white
people because they have the
control and power in this coun
try. Their minds must be
changed," a 42-year-old lawyer
in his small office in Durban's
Indian quarter tells me.
"Then last week I received
this," and he hands me a
letter.
"I, Balthazar Voster," 1 read
(he is now prime minister and
was then minister of justice)
"am here-with satisfied that
you are participating in ac
tivities which may further the
goals, and objectives of com
munism. . ."
What I am reading is a
ban, a five-year infliction on
a person's life restricting him
to his home. The ban can
not be challenged in court.
The lawyer who worked his
way up from a boy in the
mines will have to give up
his office 2s be cannot even
leave town. His wife and
children will have to find
means to live, somehow.
Communism is the magic
word in South Africa for justi
fying suppression of any op
position among against the of
fical government policy.
Afraid To Talk
Altogether I talked to about
five black people during 13
months in South Africa. The
apartheid policy of separate
busses, restaurants, post office
counters and residential jireas
is extremely effective and
channels both parts of the
population along very different
paths.
It is effective, too, in
preserving stero-types about
both races. If one wants to
talk in ait office where
everybody works together, on
different social levels though,
the black messenger would of
course be afraid to talk free-
It was in Germany that a
black student from Pretoria,
South Africa's political capital
said openly; "I wish the
American, English, French
and German governments
would stop paying lip service
to the other black nations by
condemning Sooth Africans.
They will never really help
us because they have too much
economic interest in South
Africa. They rely on South
Africa strategically, for in
stance when the Suez Canal
is blocked. We dont trust those
white governments."
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The Raleigh Little Theatre
presents the 1967 Pulitzer
Prize-winning drama, "A
Delicate Balance," by Edward
Albee, as the theatre's 190th
production in 32 seasons.
Director John Miller has
written of the play, "A
Delicate Balance is similar in
many ways to the author's
earlier. . .Virginia Woolf, -inasmuch
as Albee has again
laid bare the estrangements
of the human heart. However,
the'' language is much less
violent."
Through the crackle and
swing of dialogue, there
emerges a continuous play of
ideas and subtle implications,
S Albee drives home his point
that mankind's precarious
privilege is not only to make
decisions, but to have decisions
to make. ,
As the plot unfolds, the stag
nant home atmosphere of
one another to maintain, their
equilibrium supporting one
another as much with their
antagonisms as with love and
solicitude.
Director John Miller and his
cast of four women and two
men have found this hauntingly
Agnes and Tobias (a well-to-do, beautiful, searing tragi-comedy
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middle-aged couple) is stirred
when close friends, running
from "some nameless fear,
decide to move in. At the
same time, Agnes' and Tobias'
daughter returns to her
parents' house, seaking refuge
after her fourth marital
failure. These characters, plus
Agnes' drunken sister, need
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theatrical experience. The cast
includes Bette Elliott as
Agnes; Guy Munger as Tobias;
Jean Van Tilburg as Agnes'
sister, Claire; 'Betty Sager
and Morton Bailey as friends
Edna and Harry; Carol Cohen
as the daughter, Julia.
"A Delicate Balance" opens
for a two week, run on" Wed
nesday, March 27. All seats
are reserved. Reservations
may be made beginning March
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832-6384, from noon to 7 PM
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Lost & Found
These articles have been
turned in to the Alpha Phi
Oemga lost and found in the
basement of Smith Building:
White London Fog coat, in
Howell Hall. Initialed
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Woman's white wool
sweater in Howell Hall.
MacGregor sports jacket at
Chase Cafeteria.
White sports jacket at
Chase.
Blue coat with lining at
Mitchell Hall.
Black umbrella and cover
at Y Court.
Small gold pin in Mitchell.
Black wallet, with name of
Michael T. Connor.
Also several slide rules, hats,
books and many pairs of
glasses have been turned in.
Anyone who lost these
articles or who has found any
article of value should come
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COSMOPOLITAN CLUB meets
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for a program on Germany
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. LECTURE for School of
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