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SIMON MAJAKATHETA PHAMOTSE

For a little over twenty years I have dabbled in journalism chiefly on the subject of politics in which I am greatly interested. During that time I have written several hundreds of letters and articles to the press, both European and Native, expounding my views on any matter of political interest in which I myself am interested. Like every other journalist I have occasionally met with disappointment. When I had written an article which I considered the best that I have ever written and had sent it for publication to an European paper it has either been returned or relegated to the waste paper basket as being too extreme in the views expressed or literally unfit for publication in a self-respecting paper. But alas! When I scan over the pages of the same paper I find virulent and vitriolic articles written against my people under the signature of a white man or his pseudonym, and I pause for a while in wonderment as to what is the actual meaning of the time-worn maxim of 'British love of fair play,' and I find this to be devoid of meaning as its sister maxim 'British love of justice.'
-S. M. Phamotse, "The Experiences of a Native Journalist", Umteteli wa Bantu, April 7, 1923.

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