Opening of the NEW MAGISTRATE COURT in Durban, South Africa.
Some years ago the Nat Apartheid Government built a new multi storey Magistrate Court in Durban.
The brief to the design Architects was to incorporate complete separation of Whites and Non-Whites in all areas in the building.
The chief architect was Mr Poole. His firm Chick, Barthelemou and Poole were the Architects of the
magnificent Durban City Hall. Archiect Mr Poole Jnr. told me Pretoria had been most generous in compliments to him for designing the "PERFECT" apartheid building in the world. UNIQUE, I say,
The Whites' entrance was from the South and the Non-Whites' entrance was from North.
Both the entrances were almost in the middle of this super structure.
The genius of the Apartheid design was achieved by the design in the corridors.
NO CORRIDORS BISECTED EACH OTHER.
If one enters the building from North side he/she is isolated from persons entering from South.
The court room itself was properly divided.
The Building was ceremoniously opened by the Minister of Justice, Mr C R Swart.
At that time most Attorneys (Solicitors) were white, and almost all Advocates (Counsels, SC's, QC's)
were whites. The criminal accused' and litigants were mainly non-whites with only some white retailers as litigants.
After Swart's opening the Courts should function.
But the situation was CONFUSION COMPOUNDED.
The non white accused could not locate his white attorney, the attorney could sight his Advocate and the other round, the white prosecutor is looking for an accused just like when one who looks for a needle in a haystack.
The Magistrate feels frustrated, poor guy.
After a few days the NonWhite entrance was shut and all Whites and Non-Whites entered the building from the North side entrance.
J V Desai requested the Mayor of Durban to support him to declare
the Durban Magistrate Court an International Monument of Apartheid.
The Mayor wrote to me that I had no right to say what I said. He wrote to me Your community has caste system, burn widows, smell with curry, poverty etc. IN SHORT uncivilized,
J V Desai replied that YOUR COMMUNITY in 54 BC the conquerer of England wrote the the society had the eldest son to marry and the wife sexually romances with all the brothers and the kids
are described as kids of the eldest. Your community had no music until Elgar about only three hundred
years ago while my community had scientific music from before the reign of Emperor Ashoka more than TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. My community had social and marriage rules and law when
your community shared one woman by ALL brothers in 54 BC. (See Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars Bk,5)
Written by J V Desai on 21st January 2014.
Some years ago the Nat Apartheid Government built a new multi storey Magistrate Court in Durban.
The brief to the design Architects was to incorporate complete separation of Whites and Non-Whites in all areas in the building.
The chief architect was Mr Poole. His firm Chick, Barthelemou and Poole were the Architects of the
magnificent Durban City Hall. Archiect Mr Poole Jnr. told me Pretoria had been most generous in compliments to him for designing the "PERFECT" apartheid building in the world. UNIQUE, I say,
The Whites' entrance was from the South and the Non-Whites' entrance was from North.
Both the entrances were almost in the middle of this super structure.
The genius of the Apartheid design was achieved by the design in the corridors.
NO CORRIDORS BISECTED EACH OTHER.
If one enters the building from North side he/she is isolated from persons entering from South.
The court room itself was properly divided.
The Building was ceremoniously opened by the Minister of Justice, Mr C R Swart.
At that time most Attorneys (Solicitors) were white, and almost all Advocates (Counsels, SC's, QC's)
were whites. The criminal accused' and litigants were mainly non-whites with only some white retailers as litigants.
After Swart's opening the Courts should function.
But the situation was CONFUSION COMPOUNDED.
The non white accused could not locate his white attorney, the attorney could sight his Advocate and the other round, the white prosecutor is looking for an accused just like when one who looks for a needle in a haystack.
The Magistrate feels frustrated, poor guy.
After a few days the NonWhite entrance was shut and all Whites and Non-Whites entered the building from the North side entrance.
J V Desai requested the Mayor of Durban to support him to declare
the Durban Magistrate Court an International Monument of Apartheid.
The Mayor wrote to me that I had no right to say what I said. He wrote to me Your community has caste system, burn widows, smell with curry, poverty etc. IN SHORT uncivilized,
J V Desai replied that YOUR COMMUNITY in 54 BC the conquerer of England wrote the the society had the eldest son to marry and the wife sexually romances with all the brothers and the kids
are described as kids of the eldest. Your community had no music until Elgar about only three hundred
years ago while my community had scientific music from before the reign of Emperor Ashoka more than TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. My community had social and marriage rules and law when
your community shared one woman by ALL brothers in 54 BC. (See Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars Bk,5)
Written by J V Desai on 21st January 2014.
