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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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South Africa's first multi-racial conference opens in Johannesburg with 500 delegates from various races seeking racial harmony. Rev. Zaccheus Mahabane criticizes apartheid as a 'cancer' and 'white-ocracy,' emphasizing nonwhite Africa's push for freedom.
Merged-components note: Continuation of Multi-Racial Talks Open In South Africa story from page 1 to page 3.
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Johannesburg. South Africa, Dec. 10 Five hundred whites, persons of mixed blood, Negroes and Asians sat down together today at South Africa's first multi-racial conference to find a formula for racial harmony.
Detectives were on duty outside the conference hall at the Witwatersrand University. They took notes but did not interfere or attempt to enter.
The conference, which will last three days, is private. Its emphasis is anti-segregationist. Apartheid racial segregation was described as a "cancer eating into the soul of South Africa." Delegates and observers of all colors ate lunch together in the spirit of "practicing what we preach."
The Negro president of the conference, the Rev. Zaccheus Mahabane, said in his opening address: "Nonwhite Africa is on the march toward realization of herself. She is on the road to shake off the shackles of political slavery. No amount of repressive legislation or any device of apartheid can solve the South African problem of human relations in a multi-racial society."
He called the South African form of government a "white-ocracy."
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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Dec. 10
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conference lasts three days, private, anti-segregationist emphasis; delegates and observers of all colors ate lunch together
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Five hundred whites, persons of mixed blood, Negroes and Asians sat down together at South Africa's first multi-racial conference to find a formula for racial harmony. Detectives were on duty outside the conference hall at the Witwatersrand University. The Negro president of the conference, the Rev. Zaccheus Mahabane, said in his opening address: 'Nonwhite Africa is on the march toward realization of herself. She is on the road to shake off the shackles of political slavery. No amount of repressive legislation or any device of apartheid can solve the South African problem of human relations in a multi-racial society.' He called the South African form of government a 'white-ocracy.' Apartheid racial segregation was described as a 'cancer eating into the soul of South Africa.'