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From the editorials: "Two United Nations Commissions have come into being, one to arrange for negotiations between the South African Government and India and Pakistan over the rights of Indians in South Africa, and the other to study the apartheid questions. Nobody can feel optimistic about the progress of these Commissions. The racial question in S. Africa has to be seen against its historical background. The majority of Indians went to South Africa as industrial labourers to work in plantations and mines when local labour was not available. A minority of Indians went as traders, merchants and professionals. Both these groups prospered over the years and acquired landed property, mainly in Durban, capital of Natal Province. While the Indians rose in the social scale, the native Africans gradually left their farms — which could not support them — and poured into cities where they could work in factories. In the past ten years, there has been a heavy influx of African labour into Cape Province where new industries arose as a result of the War. The Nationalist Party (Boers) and the United Party (British and Boer), view this change in social pattern with fear and dislike. Not only do they wish to deny Indians and Africans voting and other legitimate rights, they wish to segregate them in Group Areas and forbid their entry into areas proclaimed as White. Prime Minister Mr. Nehru said in Parliament that this scheme will affect the bulk of Indians. The property they hold is worth over thirty million pounds. The scheme will force Indians to quit the shops, houses, schools and streets where they have lived for half a century or more, and go outside the cities where there will be no amenities. The fate of Africans will be similar though they do not hold so much immoveable property.
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