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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1963
African Revolution Would Halt Race Unrest, Prof. Harris Says
Violent overthrow of the white government is the only solution to the racial problem in the Republic of South Africa, Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, said last night.
Since the black people in South Africa cannot vote, there is no constitutional means of changing the government and settling the racial issue. This means the government must be changed by non-constitutional methods, and, in this case "non-constitutional means violence," he said.
"If I had been true to myself, and I was saying this at the time I lived there, there is nothing we can do today except form a revolution," Prof. Harris said.
HIS COMMENTS came as he answered questions from the audience after his talk on the apartheid policy (the physical separation of the white and black races) of South Africa.
$a_{1}$ present there are sporadic protests and strikes, but if the movement became organized it could become widespread. The question then becomes one of time. If the revolt could last long enough for aid to arrive from outside countries it could succeed, Prof. Harris said.
Communist China and India would send arms and supplies to the rebels, he said. India is indignant about the treatment given her citizens in South Africa, he said.
FASSIVE RESISTANCE requires too much organization of the black people. The white South Africans prevent this consolidation of a liberal movement through legislation and force he added. Agitators are prevented from speaking and are labeled Communist or deported. Speakers advocating positions unpopular with the white government are "banned," meaning they cannot meet in groups of more than two people, Prof. Harris said.
A trade boycott and other economic sanctions, although going a long way, will not be successful because South Africa has a booming economy, he said, and, it would be difficult to prevent foreign capital from being invested in the country and even harder to discourage all trade to South Africa.
"Anyway, I don't believe it would change the internal government," Prof. Harris said.
The attitude of the black south African towards the rest of the white people in the world depends on the support the U.S. gives the white government. The only way to stop a negative attitude towards all white people is to make it clear to Africans that the apartheid policy is equally deplorable to us, Prof. Harris said.
"What does a white liberal do in South Africa? Pack up his bags and leave?" , a student asked.
"I packed mine," Prof. Harris said, smiling.
He said the racial unrest is brought on by the white South African's attitude. They feel that integration would lead, gradual steps, to a breakdown of values, resulting in miscegenation or racial intermarriages, Prof. Harris said.
THIS IS a prospect that white South Africans oppose.
The country must deal with this attitude and perhaps the policy of apartheid is the best answer in his context, he said.
Other alternatives to apartheid are integration or "parallelism (a policy of equal, but separate facilities. Integration is unacceptable and parallelism is ineffective due to the economic conditions which depend on the black worker for labor in South African industry, Prof. Harris said.
The white government has set up a plan of racial separation which still allows them to dominate the black African. This plan proposes placing nearly 12 million African Bantus on reserves which account
for about 13 per cent of the area of the nation, he said.
THE MINORITY, some three million white people, would have that part of the country which contains most of natural resources of the nation.
Prof. Harris said the Bantu natives will be allowed to work in the industrial areas of the white region out will not be allowed to increase their skills in order to compete with the labor supply.
The natives in their region will elect representatives but these people will have no part in the governing of South Africa. They will not be allowed to form a police force, that being the duty of the white government, he said.
The tie between black and white will be one of economic "interdependence" Pror. Harris said.
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