BOERS’ GRIEVANCE
Against Portugal THREAT TO RETURN TO UNION. (Received February 25 at 5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, February 24. Four hundred Boer families, numbering 3000, who trekked from the Transvaal to Angola, are, in consequence of an alleged breach of faith on the part of Portugal relating to titles of farms and education of children and language, threatening to return to the Union. 'Three delegates concluded an interview with the Administrator of SouthWest and the Union Secretary for lands at which they described the position of the settlement as intolerable. They acted as a buffer between marauding natives and the Portuguese, and were given no rights.
The Administrator offered land to 150 families, but the nation must bear al! expenses.
The Cabinet is considering the mat
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Grey River Argus, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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125BOERS’ GRIEVANCE Grey River Argus, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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