I enjoyed reading your comments on South Africa. It's still a volatile situation amongst Africans so inclined to the persecution of their own. I am not easily assured by your words. Has it, as you have written, become a multi-racial state where Whites have been enshrined as senior partners in a mutually beneficial governmental structure? Political progress has been achieved, I agree, but there are those who hate the current structure and are little mollified by the "Goodwill" speeches of thwe present Government. Political and ethnic awareness is being spread. It is a gargantuan struggle to achieve an ideal.

The Government attempts to dampen the violent overtures of more militant party members. Old rivalries resurface. The ANC has problems and the pent passions of the people could easily explode into racial rioting, leaving many casualties. I have become acutely aware of the growing uncertainties of the ordinary man who languishes in anticlimactic aimlessness. Complaints of intimidation, racial discrimination and social inequalities further inflame the situation. Unease is being demonstrated in an upsurge of sabotage, violence and killings. Hoodlums terrorise passing motorists and all over the country incidents of arson, vandalism and assault occur. There are disturbing reports of lawlessness and licence. Old long suppressed prejudices are emerging and it would seem that serious tribal infighting has broken out. Blacks have been hideously maimed or burnt alive in their own homes. Such callous and wanton cruelty is hard to believe. It is apparent that some of the victims are members of political parties and rival groups. The savage murders infuriate the opposition and vigilante groups roam the townships. In some townships, the semblance of civilised order has begun to rapidly disintegrate. Agitators feed their ideology to an impressionable emergent people already embittered by the real and imagined crimes of the present Government and unrest could spread. A troublesome minority are a law unto themselves. They are hostile, resistant to change and irrevocably cemented in their old ways. They will deal a crippling catharsis to South Africa. The Government has to act to contain this violence.