AFRICAN POLITICS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXII, Issue 1710, 13 December 1920, Page 5

AFRICAN POLITICS.

A NATIONALIST MANIFESTO. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, December 10. Hetzog has issued a manifesto at Bloomfontein, attributing the increasing want, poverty, high cost of living, and increased prices of goods, dislocation of exchange, want of markets for export, lack of money and credit and pressure exercised by the banks to the Imperialistic policy of the Government, which he accuses of conspiracy with the British trading interest to bring about the economic downfall of Africa. Regarding the question of a Republic, while not surrendering his desire for independence, the right time has not yet arrived. The Nationalists did not wish to bring the matterto a vote at the next elections. He also denied that the nationalists wore actuated by racial motives, and declared that the ideal of the Nationalist party was sovereign independence at the right time. The fundamental reason for their Republican movement was the equality of British and Dutch in South Africa. Reverting to tho Imperialistic policy of the Government, Hertzog referred to the activity of the British Imperialistic tradespeople and politicians to possess themselves of monopolies of all African economic sources and means of help He declared that the aim and and object of the combination or conspiracy is nothing less than to put Africa economically in their power, and bind it in such a way that for years it would be the helpless prey to Imperial trade interests, and Imperial covctousness.