ALFRED MANGENA

May I trespass on your courtesy once more and ask you kindly to insert the following in your valuable paper with regard to the now daily occurrence: I mean the improper treatment of the Natives in Cape Town. i visited the location on Sunday afternoon last to see the place and some of my friends I have there, and what I gathered while speaking to them was this---"we are unfortunate subjects of His Majesty's Government because God has created us black." I enquired what was the meaning of that. They answered and said, we are very much distressed at the imposition laid upon us by the Government, viz, that every man should pay ten shillings for his place in this temporary and uncomfortable hut. . . They do not objectto the actual rent but to the unfit accomodation where they have to sleep on the wet sand. . . I would advise that the Natives should have their own [Native] Council and that the Government act in concert with them as far as practicable.

- Alfred Mangema, "The Native Location: To The Editor Of The South African Spectator", The South African Spectator, August 10, 1901.