Race Identity Cards For South Africans :
(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter—Copyright.) '(10.30 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG. Sept. G. South Africa’s Prime Minister, Dr. 1). F. Malan, announced today that “to protect the European race,” every citizen would have to carry an identity card classifying him as a European, “native,” coloured or Indian. „
He told tlie Transvaal congress of the Nationalist Party that his party was determined to enforce apartheid (racial segregation). The Government was now resolved to abolish the direct vote of coloured people in Cape Province in the same way as it had abolished representation of Indiahs in Parliament. Dr. Malan said that the Nationalists were determined to fight against the danger of communism. They realised the danger of Russia doing in Africa what she had done in other parts of the world—call for the support of nonEuropean people who were a fruitful field for Communist propaganda.
The Government was determined to stop non-European students mingling with European boys and girls at Witwatersrand and Cape Town Universities where they enjoyed equality.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23044, 7 September 1949, Page 7
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