Forty-nine Cape Town multi-racial toilets, run, by the City Council for the benefit of the public, have become the last places in South Africa which are still untouched by apartheid, “But City Council officials said this week they expected the Government to clamp down soon and compel the council to segregate public conveniences at great cost to the taxpayer. “One lawyer said: ‘These are vir-
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spend more on arms than ever before gives considerable concern. With, this colossal expenditure we see alarming difficulties, or even, indeed, the Possibility of the Govern- Ment being unable to implement Labour’s programme for social security,
In the reorganisation of the national insurance scheme now under consideration, heed should be taken that the attitude of the trade unions is still for the insurance principle and against any means-test principles, If it is that the necessary finance for improvements in pensions and other services is to come from additional increases in workers’ contributions to national insurance, along with further taxes which are anticipated in the April Budget, affecting the workers’ wages, then the hope for voluntary Wages restraint will be severely dented, The expenditure of £2,120 million on arms and overseas military spending is a greater economic drain than Britain can afford. It must be reduced to provide the funds for the developing of our social services,
tually the last bastions of multiracialism in the country and in that sense they will soon be rare items of Africana. Before the ‘White only’ notices are placed on them one of them should be transferred to some special section of the South African Museum.’
‘Occupation’ “Lawyers say there are two Acts of Parliament under which the Government could act against the toilets. There is the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act of 1953 and the Group Areas Act No. 77 of 1957. “In the Group Areas Act ‘occupation’ is the operative word as far as the toilets are concerned.
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