Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 8. April 27 1981
Black South Africans see it Differently
Black South Africans see it Differently.
"South Africa is one nation. We may come from different tribes, but so do the whites -Dutch, English, French, German - you name it. They first came in 1652, but some of us have been here since the Stone Age. The fact is that the whites must learn to share this country with us. The Government talks about giving back our 'historic homelands'. That's nonsense. The British created those reserves to safeguard their gold mines. You can't have 80 percent of the population living on 13% of the land. And we didn't choose to work for the white man. There was never any choice. We had to work to pay the white man's taxes and to buy our food. We still do. And under this Government's plans we always will."