Apartheid Versus Industrialisation

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from a special correspondent The Financial Times of January 26th wonenies an extremely strmee event in Seuth Africa: "In a desperate effort to ster the continuing flow of Africans to the cities, South Africa's Minister of Plannins, Dr. Carel de Wet, has "proclaired" large areas of the country in which virtwlly no further industrial development may take place without his written consent, ‘Included in what is probably one of the most drastic pieces of industrial legislation ever to come into force in Scuth Africa is almost the entire key Southern Transvaal industrial complex - stretching from Middelburg and Witban in the east to Klerksdorp in the west. 'Btsemfontein and Sasolburg in the Orange Free State, as well as the Cape peninsular and surrounding areas, Port Eligabeth and Uitenhage have all been proclaimed. Only Natal has escaped the net. ‘It is estimated that sore 9,000. factories fall iinder the 37 areas now proclaimed. What the lspislation boils down to is this: should any of these factories wish to increase its African labour force even by only one, then Ministerial approval will first have to »e obtained,'