8 - Wednesday, February 26, 1986 - North Shore News A a e News ee PNT TPE MIRROR, MIRROR on the them all? Ask any schoolkid and you will be told: SOUTH AFRICA. Because that’s what teacher says. Put that devil down, goes the myth, and boils and carbuncies will be things of the past. Sugar and spice and all things nice will triumph. Telling teacher to-read Paul . Johnson on the subject would bea waste of time. TV proves nightly who the bad guys are. Dr. Goeb- bels never had a better propagan- da machine on the Jews than our mass media have on South Africa. Paul Johnson is a_ brilliant British political analyst and f author of the masterpiece Modern Times. And he has written an arti- 3 cle that demolishes the idea that South Africa is some kind of uni- que moral evil. Published originally in Com- “| mentary magazine, the article | shows that apartheid in various forms is common to all of Black Africa, that the South Africans are the only ones moving slowly toward racial equality, and that its citizens of all colors are the most prosperous on the continent. He also shows that ‘‘disinvest- ment’? - -so popular with our university looneys -- will be inef- fective, just as oil and arms sanc- tions have been. The arms embargo was in- 1 stituted more than 20 years ago. Since then, South “Africa has created its own arms industry and _is today a world leader in some a Doug Collins © get this straight e wall, who is the nastiest of areas of arms production. So much so that it has become an arms exporter, with some of its best customers being other African nations! (Perhaps our ambassador to the UN, the well- known Baloneyite socialist, could make a speech about that.) South Africa has little difficulty in buying oil, says Johnson. Stif!, the country has become 85 per cent self-sufficient in energy and is now also a world leader in the technology of converting coal into petroleum. Our holy rollers did them a good turn. Did you know, too, that the Republic produces 75 per cent of the wealth produced in all of the countries south of the Sahara? And that it does so with only 25 per cent of the area’s population? Have our media told us there are more black-owned cars in this pariah among nations than there are private cars in the whole of the Soviet Union? Or that the number of blacks matriculating from high school is about to pass the white total? Or that the number of black women with professional qualifications is now over the 100,000 mark -- more than in the whole of Black Africa? And if the South Africans are such dreadful racists, how come that one of their biggest problems is to keep the blacks out, not keep them in? One reason is that the real wages of blacks in the huge South | SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.45 (WEST VANCOUVER) |f is accepting applications. for the IN’ TERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMME | September, 1986 - This comprehensive, internationally recognized programme em- phasizes a philosophy of learning and provides enrichment for the ,. academically talented and highly motivated student. ; «While the International Baccalaureate Programrne officially begins _- in Grade 11, preparatory courses commence in Grade 10. You are _ invited to attend an: . For additional information please phorie 926-7534 - (Hillside enrolls students in grades 7-12) African mining industry have tripled in the past 10 years. Haif of the country’s black miners come from abroad, and the col- lapse of the industry ‘‘would be an unimaginable catastrophe for the whole of Southern Africa’’. Racial violence? it is far worse in Black Africa. As Johnson puts it: “All | African states are racist... There is no African country where tribal or racial origins, skin color or religious affiliations are not of prime importance in securing elementary rights...Even small states like Rwanda are riven by racial fissures...These divisions have produced appalling civil wars in Nigeria, the Sudan, Chad, Zaire, Uganda and elsewhere.” South Africa, argues Johnson, is the only country moving slowly away from apartheid. He quotes anti-apartheid author Alan Paten to show that that movement is not merely cosmetic. “Disinvestment” can only help the Moscow-oriented African Na- tional Congress, whose aim is chaos followed by one-party rule. But the tougher the situation becomes, the tougher the Afrikaners, in particular, will become. The whites have the technology to win, and will fight like hell if cornered. Should the whites lose, the only winners would be the Soviet | Union. Something for our preacher- | persons and other world-savers to think about. /f they can think. 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