FRANK DISCUSSION.
EFFECT ON NATIVE TRIBES. PENALISED BY CHRISTIANITY. (From Our Correspondent.) JOHANNESBURG, July 25. ▲ Native Commissioner in SouthWest Africa, whose report has been included in the Union Government's report to the League of Nations, enters into a frank discussion of the effect of Christianity on certain native tribes, more particularly the Ovambos. He states that the heathen, when his children reach the age of usefulness, relies on them for the performance of many tasks. The Christian, on the other hand, has to send the children to school or incur censure. Any time taken up with religious observances means a smaller agricultural production and a general deterioration of ths standard of the kraal. i "The last two famines proved conclusively," he says, "that the Christian kraals were the first to be affected, while most of the bigger heathen kraate needed no assistance at all. "In Ovamboland, therefore, Christianity operates against the native economically. It is quite obvious that the more wives a kraal head has, the higher his status and the bigger his authority." .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 31
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