Topics include: article from U.S. News and World Report, 18/12/1961, by Philip K. Crowe entitled 'Diplomat's Advice: Keep South Africa as a Friend'; refusal of visa to Kenneth Bannon of the United Automotive Workers of America — protest by SA Trades Union Council; "foreign Bantu" — Tanganyika's - being kept in an immigration depot in Nigel instead of being repatriated; a lashing case in Port Elizabeth — 16 year old badly injured, Vorster says injuries "exaggerated"; a new constitution for soon-to-be independent Kenya (Tom Mboya, Sir Michael Blundell, Ronald Ngala & others); the Mr. Song racial reclassification case, Durban; request from Jim Bailey's lawyers for Helen Suzman to put series of questions in Parliament concerning the 1961 Pondoland Uprising (Drum magazine being charged for making false claims).