SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR

Te Ao Hou, September 1959, Page 54

SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR The Maori people have been strongly moved by the controversy regarding the football team about to tour South Africa. In fact, it has been the main topic of conversation. So much has been said that it is hard to think of anything new. Perhaps the most striking lesson in the affair is that the modern world is one and indivisible and that the actions of one country tend to deeply influence what happens in another. Nobody has asked so far what seems to us a very interesting question: just who are the South African Negroes whose problems are the cause of all the discussion? We think people should known more about them. We are therefore intending to publish a major feature to describe the life and culture of the modern South African Negro. We hope to get a world famous author to do this: Mr Alan Paton, supreme interpreter of the Negro, who wrote ‘Cry and Beloved Country’ is to prepare an article for the magazine which should be of the greatest interest to our readers. E. S.