S.A. BILL OPPOSED
Race Laws ‘Vicious’ (NZ.P.A.Reuter—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, March 19. Government plans to tighten South Africa’s apartheid laws have been attacked as vicious in the extreme in Parliament There was bitter dissension between Government and Opposition members during a debate on a bill aimed at halting the increasing flow of appeals against South Africa's race classifications.
Sir de Villiers Graaf, leader of the Opposition United Party, called the bill “vicious.” He accused the Interior Minister, Mr Pieter Le Roux, of trying to apply rules applicable to animal stud stock to human beings.
In a speech frequently interrupted by interjections from the Opposition, Mr Le Roux accused “integrationists and liberalists” of misusing the existing legislation regarding race classification.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31323, 20 March 1967, Page 13
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