SEGREGATION PLAN TO CONTINUE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22851, 22 January 1949, Page 5

SEGREGATION PLAN TO CONTINUE IN SOUTH AFRICA

(9.20 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, Jan. 21. The South African Government intends to take the necessary steps by legislative as well as administrative means to give effect to its policy of segregation, Major Gideon van Zyl, Governor-General, said today in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the second session of the tenth Union Parliament.

It was proposed, he said, to introduce a bill to amend the constitution of South-West Africa and accord the territory representation in the Union Parliament.

The Government after an investigation was gravely concerned at the considerable dimensions already assumed by Communist activities among certain classes of the population and was considering steps to combat them. General Smuts, leader of the South African United Party, announced in the House of Assembly that he would call for a no-confidence vote against the Government on Tuesday on the question of non-European franchise. His motion read:

“This House disapproves of the policy of the Government to abrogate and alter the existing Parliamentary rights of native and coloured peoples withoul a direct and unmistakable mandate from the people of the Union and by a two-thirds Parliamentary majority a? provided by the constitution, and expresses its want of confidence in the Government."