DINGAAN'S DAY
THE DURBAN TROUBLE
NATIVE RISING FEARED
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE
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CAPE TOWN, 16th November.
It transpires that the real purpose of the Government of Durban is to reassert determinedly the power of tho law. The police claim that a rising of, natives was contemplated at Durban, Johannesburg, and other centres on Dingaan's Day, 16th December. A few days previously the police arrested 150 natives in the docks compound. They were attacked by 2050 prisoners who had been released. There arc signs that surreptitious Communist propaganda is spreading rapidly. Tho police are disappointed at not finding assegais and axes, which it is known the natives have been collecting.
The Minister of Justice will make a statement in a few days to silence criticism, which is tending to ridicule the concentration of the police. He will introduce a Biotous Assemblies Bill, giving wide powers for restricting the movement of tho agitators which Labour is opposing.
Bingaan was a Zulu king, who was defeated by the Boers in 1838, and 16th December is kept as a public holiday to celebrate the event.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1929, Page 11
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186DINGAAN'S DAY Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1929, Page 11
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