UN General Assembly
1959

74. 1 now come to the important legislation passed by last year’s session of the South African Parliament, namely, an Act to provide for self-government in the territories of each of the six ethnic groups of the Bantu race. Experience has shown, not only in South Africa, but also in other parts of the African continent, that clashes, and even internecine wars have resulted from rivalry and other differences between ethnic groups of the African peoples. In this respect, the black man in Africa is no different from the white man in Europe — as history can testify. 75. The Act for the promotion of Bantu self-government provides the means for the different Bantu territories to progress along the road towards self- government, and eventually to form part of a South African Commonwealth, together with the Union of South Africa, which will, during the intervening period, act as the guardian of the emergent Bantu self- governing States.