Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 11. 1964.
S.A.'s Neighbours Threatened
S.A.'s Neighbours Threatened
The South African Government constitutes a permanent and dangerous threat to Basutoland. Bechuanaland and Swaziland, says the 11th ISC.
It notes that the British colonial authorities have been culpably deficient in the economic and constitutional development of the three High Commission territories.
South Africa, it claims, can still employ powerful economic weapons against the three territories especially in regard to the customs agreements that are at present under revision. Finally, the question of the economic development of the three territories and of their defence against possible South African attack was felt to be a matter for urgent international concern.