FRI., MARCH 30, 1962
ROGUE NEWS
PAGE THREE
South African Tells
Of Native People
By Yvonne Nicolson
For many centuries before the
Portugese explorers first rounded
the Cape of Good Hope, the Bush
men those little pigmy hunters
who live on roots, locusts, larvae
of antns, reptiles and mammalia
of all kinds were the only in
habitants of the greater part of
Southern Africa. When the Hot
tentots came down from the north,
they all but exterminated these
little yellowish-brown people, forc
ing those that remained to live
in small, isolated groups.
This, roughly, was the position
of the inhabitants when Jan van
Riebeeck, founder of European
civilization in South Africa, ar
rived in Table Bay on April 6
1652.
A grave difficulty facing the
authorities in the seventeenth
century was that of obtaining
suitable immigrants. Fortunately,
however, they were able to obtain
a number of Huguenot refugees
among whom were many families
of the best calibre. Then, in 1820,
four thousand hand-picked British
settlers arrived brave men and
women to whom South Africa
owes a deep debt of gratitude.
Later still came Germans, French
men, Swedes, Danes, Belgians,
Norwegians, Portuguese . . . From
every corner of the earth they
came to this land of sunshine to
help us in our national growth.
There are actually no fewer
than five distinct racial groups
inhabiting the Republic of South
Africa: the Whites or Europeans,
who number 3Vi million of the
15 million population; the 11 mill
ion members of the Bantu tribes;
the Gloreds; the Malays, and the
Indians. The Malays have adhered
to the doctrines of Islam and have
remained a separate section of
the community; many of them
have adopted the language and to a
certain extent the ways of living
of the European. The Indians are
descended principally from the
indentured laborers who came to
dork on the sugar estates in Natal
between 1860 and 1911. Many of
them have thrived and become
prosperous.
The colored people number
over IVi million. They are a
mixed race resulting from con
tacts between Bushmen, Hotten
tots, Bantu, imported slaves and
to a not inconsiderable extent
Europeans. In the course of time
this mixed race became a unit in
South Africa with its own identity
and, while recognizing their dif
ference from the European, they
have always tried to identify their
interests as closely as possible
with his. For general purpose
one may divide the colored people
into three distinct classes firstly,
the increasingly large number of
well-to-do and educated colored
people, including the doctors, the
lewyers, the teachers, the inde
pendent workmen; secondly, the
farm and unskilled laborers, the
factory workers, and the house
hold servants; and thirdly, the
undesirable class, the so-called
'skollies." The Cape Coloreds are
fast developing a musical and
artistic culture of their own.
White, Black. Brown, Yellow-
all are afforded every opportunity
to progress, to follow their own
way of life, culture and religion,
to work and to play, to receive
education.
FIRST PERIOD
STUDY HALL
Study Hall is usually a free
period in which students may
study or go into the library to
increase their knowledge.
Although study hall is a place
to study, it is not always done,
as anyone could see if they hap
pen to drop into first period study
hall class when the teacher is
tout of the room.
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When the teacher is in the
room, she makes sure there is
no noise such as unnecessary talk
ing, but as soon as she leaves, the
fun and frolic begins.
Almost at once, everyone starts
to chat with neighboring students
Every so often, someone has an
excess of rubber bands and im
mediately the air is filled with
flying strands of rubber anr
sticky, wet balls of paper. The
students begin to get up and walk
around to arouse more trouble.
and an added touch of a thin
wire stretched tightly from seat
to seat adds a bit of humor as
students hurrying down the aisle
trip over it.
About the time the up-roar gets
going quite strongly, everyone
knows it is about time for the
teacher to appear. When she ap
pears, there is almost at once a
sudden hush over the entire study
hall. Those who continue to cause
a disturbance usually find them
selves rearranged to a new seat
in the front of the study hall
quite close to the teacher.
SAY YOU SAW IT IN
THE ROGUE NEWS
By Sharron Oviatt
Apparently most of the sopho
more's didn't hear the announce
ment which asked them to please
not gather in crowds in the halls.
If you wish to take the trip
to Seattle for the World's Fair
in April or May, please contact
Mrs.. McAlaster or Mr. Ley
bold. Twenty-one applications
are needed.
Don't forget the minstrel show
tonight and tomorrow night
I sincerely hope all the juniors
enjoyed the two days away from
regular classes to take the Iowa
tests.
It's official!!!! Spring has
sprung! March 21 was the first
day of Spring.
I would like to inform any
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the purpose of taking up space.
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