What The Papers Say
PRETORIA SHOULD ACCEPT ALL ON AN EQUAL FOOTING
SUNDAY NATION, KENYA
After 127 days debating a proposed constitution, the all white parliament in South Africa did what was expected recently: Endorsed it.By a vote of 119-35 in favour, the Assembly endorsed the new constitution that would create new legislative chambers for the coloureds and Indians and a president's council...
The bill would create an 80-member coloured chamber and a 40-member Indian Assembly to sit alongside the existing white parliament in Cape Town. A president's council, also with a white majority, would help resolve disputes among the three chambers...
What will happen though is that some Indians and coloured leaders, will join the chambers because they believe in changing the system from within. Consequently, there will be disputes between the three chambers and the white dominated president's council will undoubtedly go against the coloured and the Indian chambers.
The National Party should stop wasting time and demolish the apartheid policy. South Africa has room and resources for all races. These must be open to all to avoid the inevitable conflagration
DECODING THE WRONG SIGNALS
NEW LIBERIAN
Reference made by the Liberian leader, CIC Doe, to a piece of land in Sierra Leone, has sort of escalated the dispute between Sierra Leone and Liberia....The Sierra Leone Government has taken the reference to the land so seriously that its leader, President Siaka Stevens declined to attend a meeting in Conakry, Guinea, on the date that he himself had suggested for the meeting.
The land in question is said to stretch from Sherbro to Solyman. According to reports, this territory was taken away from Liberia and given to Sierra Leone during the scramble for land in Africa....
Doe has reiterated in Conakry that his government has no territorial designs as the Sierra Leone Government seems to believe…
We still remember that this is the sort of thing that killed the regional body that Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania created and they laboured so hard to nurture and sustain. Quarrels between two of the leaders sent that body into the grave, and the three countries are still feeling guilty.
Let us guard against such in this part of Africa where regional groupings continue to make headway, groupings like MRU and ECOWAS:
