“COLOUR” IN SOUTH AFRICA

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 2

“COLOUR” IN SOUTH AFRICA

DISSENSIONS IN CABINET [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. Feb. 18, 2 p.m.). CAPE TOWN, February 17. An unexpected Cabinet rift has arisen over the introduction of private Bills, prohibiting mixed marriages, employment of Europeans by Asiatics, and barring European women, who are married to non-Europeans, from inheriting property. Anticipating a general election, the Opposition is blazing over the colour question on the back veldt, which is alarmed at the rejection by Parliament of the Mixed Marriages Bill, as being retrogressive and unnecessary. The Assembly was astonished by the Premier’s acceptance of motion to refer the other Bills to a Select Committee, upon which Mr. J. H. Hofmeyer, Minister of the Interior, professing to speak for the Government, declined to promise time to discuss the Committee’s report. The Premier tartly secured an adjournment of the debate. While it is expected that the difficulty has been composed at present, it is inevitable that the two schools of thought, roughly representative of the Transvaal and the Cape, will force the issue ultimately.