action, ending in a National theme will be an end to the police killings to act against the apartheid regime. THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the South African government that it was proposing to scrap the Mixed Marriages Act, which made inter-racial marriages invalid, Immorality Act, which made sexual relations across the race barriers a criminal act, will do little to appease the civil unrest which still ravaging the Eastern Cape townships.
Although between were prosecuted 1586 convicted under these racist acts, this legislation did not touch the lives millions of black people living in the townships and 'homelands'. Through its DUnIC y of residential segregation of the officially-designated ethnic groups, There little social contact between the great mass of the black and white populaMiddle Class What comfort the withdrawal of the legislation will bring will mainly arecl the small, aull ln creasingly politicall middle saucanl. which the government is trving to woo to lts side Even when their marriages and liaisons will no longer lead to police harassment prosecution, the 'mixcouples will still find themselves confronted by racist obstacles to any relationship.
By Charlie van Gelderen The Survey of Race Relations in South Africa for 1983, reports that in the whole of South Africa restaurants with status which permits them to admit people of different aces. Fifteen application: for multiracial cinemas WEIC Department of Communi- received by the ty Development; 11 were successful, and TOUT were not. In April 1982 there was an outcry because Richard Attenborough's Gandhi was to be premiered in South Africa in front of segregated audiences. Life in Soweto South Africa hecause blacks could not use pools set aside for whites. These. of course, comprise at least 90 per cent of pools in The newly-wed couples would also find it difficult to plan a seaside holiday because 'whites only' only', 'coloureds only', 'Indian only'. The same applies to camping Above all they would have the problem of wher. to live. Unde Tae racist laws, blacks are not allowed live dica designated a Indian 'white', 'coloured' or and there is no proposa to do away with these laws which the very COInerstone of apartheid This will also affect schools which their photo. pap SANDEN children may attend Quite clearly, this is not a major step toward the dismantling of the whole pernicious system, but simply anther exercise in cosmetic change to avocast Apartheid itself is the rea immorality, and this will nol end until the whole system is brought down resistance of the people.
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