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By virtue of my professional activities I have been brought into very close contact with the lives of many people in our multi-racial community and I have found that the problems of public health and the well being of the people have been aggravated to an alarming degree by the pernicious system of colour bars and racial discrimination which obtain in South Africa.

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By virtue of my professional activities I have been brought into very close contact with the lives of many people in our multi-racial community and I have found that the problems of public health and the well being of the people have been aggravated to an alarming degree by the pernicious system of colour bars and racial discrimination which obtain in South Africa.

It is shocking to realise that this system has reduced the overwhelming majority of our population, namely the Non-European people, to a state of chronic malnutrition, ill-health, illiteracy and poverty. Indeed, more than that, the stigma of racial inferiority has engendered in the minds of the non-white people not only frustration but a deep sense of resentment against the whole fabric of society in which they are treated as sub-humans...

It is therefore that I felt it a matter of duty to express in some tangible and concrete form my and the people's disapproval of the highhanded and unwarranted actions of the Minister and in doing so I happen to fall foul of what I consider to be an unjust and diabolical law.

We are law-abiding citizens and are prepared to obey all laws made for the peace, order and the good government of the country. But laws in the making of which we have no say and which are bad and unjust and calculated to disturb the peace and harmony can not only not be tacitly approved of but must be fought by every legitimate means at the disposal of the people.

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