THE BRAKPAN REPRIEVE.
DANGERS OF REVOLUTION. CIVILISATION AT STAKE. (•Received 12.:T0 p.m.) CAPETOWN, December 27. The Hon. Duncan (Minister of the Interior), in his first Ministerial utterance on ttye subject of the Brakpan reprieve, said the Government decided to commute sentences, not because they did not recognise the terrible nature of the crimes, but because they felt that the men were not personally guilty of the murders, and because they were mislod nnd did not what they were doing. But he wished to say very seriously that South Africa could not go on like this. She should not go on having a revolution every few years. "We small people have to maintain European civilisation," he continued, "and if we are to fight amongst each other every few years civilisation will die."—.(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 307, 28 December 1922, Page 5
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