SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 21318, 24 January 1933, Page 10

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT

HOPEFUL SIGHS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, January 23. (Received January 24, at 12.5 p.m.) After prayers at the Assembly opening a man, evading the vigilance of She police, rushed across the lobby into the Assembly, waving his hands and shouting: “Oswald Pirow, I accuse you of corruption and maladministration.” A struggle followed with the attendants, and the House took a few minutes to recover its composure.

A motion by General Smuts to-mor-row in favour of a National Government is causing tense excitement. It is known that he and Air Roes conversed at the week-end, also that the Government’s position is not assailed. Neither the disaffected Nationalists nor the Creswellites will support the motion.

Mr Roes is insisting on a coalition without the dominance of either party. 'The Assembly . ratified the Ottawa agreement. General Smuts paid a warm tribute to the Minister of Finance (Mr Havenga). He said: “ We are at the day of small beginning’s that may lead to great developments.”