RACE AND COLOUR
HE so-called colour problem in the world today, a recent writer has observed, resolves itself into one fundamental question: How will the economically and politically dominant 700,000,000 people who call themselves "white" respond to the pressing demands for advance from the 1,700,000,000 people who are called "coloured"? This colour problem is of special importance and significance to the people of the British Commonwealth, for as Professor K. M. Buchanan points out in the first of a series of talks to be heard from YA and YZ stations at 9.15 p.m. on Thursdays -starting on August 2-there is an element of racial or’ colour conflict in each ‘of the major conflict areas. "Kenya, Malaya, Singapore, Cyprus, British Guiana are obvious examples," he says, "but it is in the Union of South Africa that the most explosive situation is to be found." Professor Buchanan, who is Professor of Geography at Victoria University
College, has taken as his subject the contrasting race policies to be found in British Africa, and in his first talk he gives in some detail the background to "one of the most complex racial or
ethnic patterns in the world." The question of historical rights, he says, has little relevance to the South African situation, for the basic struggle there is | between Bantu and European, whereas | the original population was neither Black nor White, but -yellow-skinned wandering peoples of Bushman or Hottentot stock. It is quite impossible to understand the Afrikaners’ obsessive preoccupation with the survival of his group unless we bear in mind the century of | struggle between the Boer trekkers and the Bantu which followed their first contact towards the end of the 18th century, says Professor Buchanan. In the end the Bantu military power was broken; and if the Afrikaner later suffered defeat in the Anglo-Boer War he has, nevertheless, finally prevailed, for today it is his culture and his concept of life that is in the ascendant.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 25
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