Evening star., 1960-03-31
AFRICA
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foot were also stopped and
questioned. Some were turned
back.
Police Mai. Jerry Van Der
Nerve said the Negroes in Cato
Manor apparently were trying
to force the release of one of
their leaders arrested in yester-
days police raids.
Police Charge Crowd
Racial troubles were also re-
ported at Port Elizabeth, about
500 miles down the Indian
ocean coast. Attempts were
,inade to burn three schools in
the New Brighton Negro settle
iment outside Port Elizabeth.
At one school windows we're
smashed.
Police also made a baton
charge on a crowd of about
300 Negroes who they said
grew threatening in Jabavu, a
white city area southwest of
Johannesburg. The crowd then
dispersed.
At Natalspruit, southeast of
Johannesburg, police reported
railroad tracks were loosened
land a stone roadbloc k thrown
up on q highway. Police dis
persed a crowd of about $50
near the roedblock.
There was a not-too-Well-
organized stay-at-home move
fnent IN some Negro townships
ranging from per cent at
Jabavu to 20 per cent in Alex
andra township north of Jo-
Aannesburg. police said.
Security police, meanwhile,
staged new raids on Offices of
the African National Congress
and the Transvaal Indian Con-
gresS in johannesburg.
Leader Goes to U. N.
Oliver Tambo. acting presi-
dent Of the ANC, has slipped
out of South Africa to appear
before the United Nations Sc
ctrity Council in New York
With an ANC manifesto.
Mr.. Tambo is acting leader
IN. place of Albert Luthuli,
whose activities have been Sc
Setely hampered by govern
ment decree. He has been
banned by the government
from attending meetings and
was restricted to his home dis
trict in Natal before the pres
ent emergency.
Mr.. Luthuli's attorney re-
ported in Pretoria today that
the former Zulu chief is seri-
0usly i'll with high blood pres
sure and needs immediate hos
pital treatment. He made the
statement at the marathon
treason trial for Negro and
White opponents of the govern
raent's apartheid (racial seq
regation) policies who we're ar
rested in 1856.
Mr.. Luthuli, 81. told the
court yesterday he had been
beaten by a white prison
warder after he was arrested
In yesterdays roundup Of IL
legged subversives.
Opposition political leaders
had urged the government to
consult with moderate Negro
leaders. Instead, the govern
ment staged the arrests.
234 Leaders Arrested
A total of 234 leaders in the
current campaign of defiance
against the governments race
laws were arrested before dawn
yesterday. Some white p1em-
bers Of the Liberal Party and
some Indians were among
them.
Prime Minister Hendrix Ver-
Roerd followed up the arrests
with a threat to use regular
armed forces to prevent new
Negro demonstrations after
$4,000 marched on a police sta
ton and demanded the release
ot their leaders.
A big army CONVOY moved
into Johannesburg, 800 miles
north of the parliamentary seat
of Cape Town. amid rumors that
Negroes were planning a march
on Fort Johannesburg Prison,
where many of their leaders
are held.
.@ Parliament Meets
The South African Parlia-
ment met through the night
in Cape Town to speed action
on legislation for the outlaw
ing Of the African National
Congress. the Pan Africanist
Congress and other organiza-
tions accused Of plotting a
massive revolt"
The government has already
assumed wide powers under the
state of emergency proclaimed
yesterday for most cities and
towns, including the right to
arrest anyone in the interest
Of public safety. The regula-
tions include provision for bans
on the two chief weapons used
so far by Negro leaders in their
campaign against the govern
ment-work stoppages and
demonstrations.
with South Africa,s 10 mil
lion Negroes forming the hard
core of the nations labor force,
the emergency regulations
make it an offense to organize
q work stoppage or for anyone
70 stay away from his job with
the intention to cause general
disiocation or disable any in
dustry or undertaking."
Magistrates and police Of
hcers are empowered to ban
meetings or processions-the
only exceptions being church
meetings, school classes and
funerals of persons who have