Ee eeer Trot RO Ren Date rel VET Doug Collins ® get this straight ® THERE’S ONLY one pariah country in the world aid that’s the country of apartheid. We hear it daily, and in Ottawa, Joe Dope Clark waxes smug about the shutting down of South African Airways, he hoping thereby to sit at the right hand of God. Apartheid is the separation of the races, and never the twain shall meet, etc. But when you visit South Africa, as 1 did last month, you will find the ogre isn’t quite as bad as he’s cracked up to be. You also find that the government is committed to change and has been diminishing apartheid for years. But the world doesn't want to notice. Our media and politicians be- ing equally rotten, it's easy to believe that apartheid means blacks never meet whites unless the black is serving the white a drink, or unless the white is smiting the black on the head. But, all over South Africa, whites and blacks are eating and drink- ing in the same restaurants. A few months ago, the idiotic Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion refused to run a South African advertisement showing such mixing (which has been go- ing on since 1982). But in the five-star Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg and the Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town, not only were blacks dining and drinking in top-flight bars and restaurants, they were being served by white waitresses. And white waitresses and black were working together. The winds of change have been blowing very fast. In Stellen- bosch, the Afrikaner university city that has the reputation of having been the philosophical heart of apartheid, I met Mr. Herinann Bailey of the private- ly-funded Rural Foundation, which secks to improve the lot of farm workers. Mr. Bailey has 22 whites working for him. And he is a black. He counts Afrikaner farmers and grape growers, some of whom we met, as his friends. To give you a full list of the apartheid Jaws that have been scrapped would only cause you to turn to the Sunshine Girl. But some examples should be given: regulations that restricted black movement have been abolished; South African citizenship has been assured to all; property rights have been extended to everyone; the Mixed Marriages Act has been abolished, and sport has long been fully in- EXPC SUCCESS tegrated. {n South African terms, such things are revolutionary and even traumatic, as members of the Canadian Business Association told me in Johannesburg. Even more astounding was that while we were in Durban, the Dutch Reformed Church came ou: against apartheid. Constantly, important white interests are demanding that more reforms be enacted, and it is only a matter of time before the Group Areas Act under which blacks and others are restricted to their own residential districts will be dumped. Already, it is often ignored. Trouble is that nothing the South Africans do short of han- ding over the country to the blacks tomorrow morning. will satisfy the critics, and we are tell- ing white South Africans how to solve their problems without knowing what those problems are. South Africa’s racial and social difficulties are unique. The Zulus alone have 284 tribes (they told me) not all of whom love each other. In Cape Town, the small Malay community doesn’t want whites moving in with them. In Inanda, a town north of Durban, when blacks declared a boycott | on white stores, the (East) In- dians ripped the blacks off and the blacks promptly gutted every Indian store except the one next | to the police siation. We ia Smugiand refuse to recognize or are too dim to tecognize that South Africa is where the Third World meets the First. There are chaps with beads in their ears and there are nuclear physicists. Racial divisions are deep and not confined to whites. In addition to the Zulus, there are Xhosas, North Sothos, South Sothos, Swazi, Asiatics, and God knows what else. J One man one vote? It took us 900 years to achieve that, most countries still don’t have it, and its sudden appearance in South Africa would create certain chaos. No point in telling that to our boneheads in Ottawa, of course. More on Sunday. WV ferry to continue? HOW DOES a ferry trip from West Vancouver to Granville {sland to take in dinner and an Arts Club Theatre performance sound? Cormorant Marine received permission from West Vancouver Council to conduct such a service. The company began transporting Expo 86 patrons from Dundarave to the fair this summer. According to Cormorant, local residents have been asking the company about the possibility of continuing some sort of post-Expo service. Response to the ferry-dinner- theatre package idea bas apparent- ly been very enthusiastic. Ald. 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