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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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