South Africa Bans Two Anti-Government Groups
CAPE TOWN — (UPI) — South Africa outlawed two major native anti-government organizations for a year today after a pre-dawn round-up of about 150 suspected Communists, including a number of white men.
At the same time, police said they had broken an anti-government protest strike in the African township of Nyanga, one of the last main centers of resistance to restrictive racial laws.
The labor situation was reported normal throughout South Africa today. Police said 57,000 of the total 60,000 native labor force were back on the job in Cape Town. They said 1,000 absences were due to illness and 2,000 natives had left the labor force to return to their tribal reserves.
Justice Minister F. C. Erasmus told Parliament that all activities of the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress had been banned, effective immediately and until April 6, 1961.
Deputy Police Commissioner I. P. S. Terblanche said that "about 7,000 people (most of the Nyanga labor force) left the location this morning to go to work."
Erasmus was asked about Anglican Bishop Ambrose Reeves, of Johannesburg, who left for Swaziland last weekend under the reported impression that he might be arrested if he remained in South Africa. Erasmus refused to discuss the case.
Back at Work
Picked from Commie List
Informed sources said the names of persons to be arrested were picked from Communist membership lists seized in 1946, and now out of date in many cases. Later Red membership lists were destroyed by the party in 1950, when the suppression of Communism act was passed.
Police were equally uncommunicative about today's pre-dawn arrests, saying only that they were ordered under South Africa's current emergency regulations.
Among those reported arrested today were at least two attorneys, a photographer, a chain-store manager and his wife and the wives of a number of anti-government leaders who had been arrested previously.
Friday, April 8.1960 University Daily Kansas
The national French honor society, Pi Delta Phi, initiated 15 new members at a meeting last night at the Kansas Union.
Undergraduates initiated into the group were Ann Cramer, Cincinnati senior; Nancy Faunce, Lawrence senior, and Ilze Sedricks, Parsons senior.
Also initiated were Max Cordon- nier, assistant instructor of English; Maurice Bourquin, Ann Colbert, William Disney, Michael McGoooky, Paul Toefer and Rodrigo Solera, all assistant instructors of Romance language.
French Society Initiates Fifteen
Robert Rowlette, Lawrence graduate student; Peter Caws, assistant professor of philosophy; Walter Starkie, professor of Romance languages, and Mrs. Starkie, and Mrs. Richard Strawn. Mr. Strawn is an associate professor of Romance languages.
SUA Applications Deadline Tuesday
Applications for positions on the board of _Student Union Activities are available at the SUA offices in the Kansas Union.
The applications for an officer's position must be returned to Mary Lou Martin, SUA adviser, by noon Tuesday. The officer interviews will be April 19.
Applications for a position on the board are due at noon April 19 in the SUA office. Interviews for the selection of board members will be April 21.
Art Professor Will Give Public Lecture Monday
George Cohen, assistant professor of art at Northwestern University, will give a public lecture at 10 a.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall. Prof. Cohen will speak on "The Artist, the Subject and the Center." The lecture is sponsored by the School of Fine Arts.
The two "Congresses" banned today were the chief representatives of native opinion in South Africa. They had spearheaded "nonviolent" opposition to the government's white supremacy policies.
Already Underground
nearly all the leaders of the Pan-Africanist Congress are behind bars.
The African National Congress already had gone underground, while
Today's raids were carried out in major cities and African towns
major cities and African townships. A police department spokesman in Johannesburg said more than 100 persons were arrested in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth.
Those arrested included whites, Indians and Africans, both men and women, he said.
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