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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGuN Basuta Born Africans to be Returned to Remote Mountain Area THURSDAY. MARCH 14. 1963 Editor'i notei In racially burdened South Africa, a vait resettlement ei "foreign" black residents ii in tha plan ning atage. Thii i the story of how it ii expected to work and the impact it will have on hundreds oi thousands of black Africans. By -NEIL SMITH United Press International Johannesburg Timothy M lives in one of the vast sprawling African townships on the outskirts of Johannes burg. He works as a messen ger in the city and carries home a weekly pay ol 9 ranas ($12.60) to his wife and two small children. ' He is cheerful and thor oughly content with the blus tering, brittle big city life, It is the only life he has known since he arrived in this golden city during the war years as a shy child fresh from his tribal village. Now it seems the world is coming to an end for Timothy and hundreds of thousands of others like him. Within five ' years, if the recommendations of a government - appointed commission on foreign Bantu are accepted, he could find himself and his family forci. bly returned to the remote Two-Skirt Outfit mountain valley where he grew up so many years ago. For Timothy, although ne looks and speaks just like any other Johannesburg-bred African, is a foreigner. He is a Basuto, born in Basuto land, the overcrowded button of British territory in the heart of South Africa's moun tain spine. His father had worked in the Witwatersrand gold mines in the 1930's and gained a taste for the neon lit glass and chromium life of Johannesburg. When war broke out he returned to Jo hannesburg to seek work in the newly booming factories.. A few years later his wife and children crossed the un fenced, largely unpoliced fron tier between Basutoland and South Africa and joined him. Timothy would never re turn to Basutoland volun tarily. His homeland is poor and under-developed. Unless he became a peasant farmer scratching out a living from the infertile mountain soil, he probably would remain unem ployed. When the axe falls Timothy will be only one of a vast company. Estimates of the number of foreign Africans In the republic run from 830,000 to more than 1 million from various areas. Some of them have lived in South Africa for up to 40 years; many have-married local African women and car ry the full range of South African identification docu ments. Faw to Remain But the commission is ada mant. Only those required urgently to balance the coun try's economy will be allow- Sfyle-Comforf Wear fashion's favorite overblouse with a slim skirt one day, flared skirt the next so smart, figure-flattering. ' Printed Pattern 0005: Half Sizes 12',i, HVi, IB'i, 18'i, 20'i, Size Wz over- blouse l's yards 33-inch; slim skirt l' yards. FIFTY CENTS In coins for this pattern add 15 cents for first-class mailing and spe cial handling. 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Women and children dependents of foreign Africans will be the first to be deported. They will be fol lowed by the unemployed and, finally, by all foreign blacks holding jobs that can be filled by local non-whites. I If the commission's recom mendations are adopted, and i political observers believe there is little doubt they will be, Timothy will be allowed to remain in South Africa only as long as he holds his present job. The moment he loses it he will be classified as unemployed and deported. Detention Camps Detention camps will be' opened at various points along the country's frontiers. Any African caught trying to sneak into the country to look for work will be punished by being sent to one of these camps. Considering South Africa's reputation in the field of race relations, these measures to keep out eager would-be black immigrants seem incredible. One may well ask what stubborn impulse has beckon ed 1 million people from ail ! parts of the .continent to the one African state that is an anathema to all black nation alists. The answer is simple. -South Africa may offer pin pricks and humiliations ga- I lore fo the race-proud Africa, but it also offers the highest paid and greatest variety of jobs, as well as the most sophisticated urban life in Africa. Over the years, eco nomic lures have outweighed political and personal disad vantages. ' Any mass removal of for eign Africans from the re public will send ripples of ap prehension far to the north. Basutoland, already hard pressed to provide employ ment for its 900,000 inhabit ants, the. addition of more than 350,000 able-bodied men, women and children could prove a major catastrophe leading to mass misery and hunger. Immigrants Costly The government commis sion emphasized the financial aspect of South Africa's 1 mil lion unofficial black settlers. According to the report the illegal immigrants cost, the government more than 4 mil lion rands ($3.6 million) a year in educational, medical services and pensions. But apart from the obvi ous financial arguments in favor of the mass deportation of unwanted blacks, there are other unstated, political rea sons. As African nationalism eliminates the last vestiges of the colonial era in Africa, the republic will find that more and more of its huge foreign black population are citizens of independent black states bitterly hostile to any South African government dedicated to white supremacy. Stronger Pressures Foreign Africans in South Africa will be subject to niore and stronger anti-South Afri can pressure from their home lands. In sending them all back from where they came South Africa is not only sav ing a few million rand. It is also eliminating a potentially dangerous fifth column in the midst of its own restless black population. 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