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African Children Going Hungry Despite Export of Food Surpluses Potgeitersrus, South Africa (UPD-African tots with bloated stomachs and stick-like legs stand quietly in line to collect their relief rations. Each holds out a scrawny hand for a slice of bread and peanut butter and a quantity of fortified meal, taken as a drink resembling thin cereal. They squat on their haunches to gulp down the charity handout. On red letter days, the Afri can and European helpers of the local relief committee hand out sour lemons as well. Three successive poor har vests in the Northern Trans vaal have made the quiet line of thin-cheeked children a common sight here. The hunger in this prosper ous, tree-shaded little town is only part of a problem which extends for 13.000 square miles from the Been uanaland border in the north west to the Sekhukuneland African reserve in the south east. Crops have failed and the hot sun has turned once rich grazing land into dry, with ered veld. Malnutrition is chronic among Africans in this part of the world. But the drying out of the countryside has brought the threat of real famine. A spokesman for the relief committee here said some of the children hike five miles to SECTION C PAGES 1 to 8 MEDFORDv iy&JTRIBUNE Mfdford. Or., Thuri.. July 19, 1962 lUlltVl lllt.ll llltall IBI1VII. I "At home some of them are I only fed every second day," jhe said. South African government officials deny there is any starvation among Africans in the Northern Transvaal or anywhere else. "There is no famine in South Africa," Agricultural, Economics and M a r k e t ing Secretary S. J. J. De Swardt said recently. "It is a known fact that all foodstuffs are readily avail able in the country," he said. "In any of the rural areas a family is able to cultivate a large variety of victuals right where they live." In special cases of prolong ed drought or failure of the crops, De Swardt said, "the l state has always taken special measures to ensure that no persons, irrespective of race, should suffer through fam ine." One group of European pro fessional, religious and busi ness leaders apparently is not convinced that these special measures entirely meet the problem. They have formed a non profit making corporation to sell South Africa's growing food surpluses to needy whites and non-whites, as cheaply as possible. Thpv nnlnt tn thr fart that 'South Africa has a surplus of 24 million pounds of butter and 8 million pounds of cheese. The country will ex port this year 28 million pounds of corn, the staple diet of the Africans. The pilot plan starts this month. Meanwhile t h e children stand in line in Potgietersrus. The relief committee, which has received $12,600 from the South African government and other money from volun tary contributions, reckon their funds will last until the end of August. 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