Dr. Verwoerd's Apartheid Governmat has its own “Honour's List". It consists of list of people banned under the “Suppression of Communism Act". To my om astonishment and pride, the Government Gazette Extraordinary, published in Pretoria on April ist, 1966, includes me in a list of 46 people not at present living in South Africa, who may not be quoted in South Afriva, It is surely significant that this government which has just been returned with an overwhelming majority by the exclusively white electorate of South Africa, has so little confidence in its own strength that it fears the word of an “emigre” who left South Africa as long ago as
Others included in this list include Arthur Goldreich, the Rivonia trialist who made a spectacular escape, and Vivian Ezra, who was alam named in the Rivonia trial but escaped to Bechuanaland, Anthony Eastwood, son-in-law of Abraham Fischer, the barrister who defended the Révonia prisoners and is now himself on trial, Dennis Higgs, whose kidnapping from Zambia in 1964 caused an international incident, and Ronald Segal, editor of the special Africa series published by Penguin Books (which presumably will now be sold in South Africa without his prefaces, if they are allowed to be sold at all.) Also included are Can Temba, a former Johannesburg journalist who has been tipped as Swaziland's future Minister of Education when that terrbtory achieves its independence, and, surprisingly, Todd Mtshikiza, who composed the music for "King Kong”. It is interesting to note that the 46 names are published in two separate lists - one for "whites" and one for "nonwhites". Even in its official publications, the Verwoerd Government practices its pernicious racialist theories. What a ,ity they cannot overcome the technical difficulty of printing the Governmet Gazette in black and white ! ;