STATUS OF NATIVES.
SOUTH AFRICA'S PROBLEM. LAND BILL CONDEMNED. (Received 1 p.m.) CAPETOWN, October 14. An important representative body, known as the Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, which has been sitting for some time to consider Native Bills, has issued a lengthy memorandum, the main feature of which is a strong condemnation of certain clauses in the Land Bill, which the Commission maintain will introduce a condition scarcely indistinguishable ' from slavery, and usher in a period of misfortune unparalleled in the history of the country. It points out there is no possibility of the natives generally being able to purchase land under the bill, consequently thousands must remain on farms as labour tenants or servants, or else migrate to the towns, where their progress is barred by the Colour Bar Act. If they remain on farms a board will sit in each magisterial district to distribute the labour tenant force among European proprietors in a manner which cannot be truly differentiated from slavery.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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164STATUS OF NATIVES. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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