TRIBAL UNITY

Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 5

TRIBAL UNITY

MENACE TO WHITES SOUTH AFRICAN COLOUR LINE. CONFLICT INEVITABLE. (Received 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. Mr Ward Price, writing in the "Daily Mail," says: "The threatening racial clash between black and white in South Africa is becoming an outstanding problem. Politicians frame legislative breakwaters against the spreading sea of colour, nevertheless they know they are only weak expedients and not a practical remedy fox the impending conflict caused by the rise of racial unity among the blacks, whose tribal jealousies are disappearing and whose languages are fusing. "There are 8,000,000 natives throughout South Africa, compared with 1,560,000 whites. The blacks are multiplying far more rapidly than their white masters, who base economic development on cheap labour. The blacks are developing a contentious spirit of colour consciousness under the lead of American educated natives, who brag that, their function is to lead primitive tribes in a, racial struggle. Such conditions may end in rebellion, meaning first the massacre of scattered whites and then the massacre of half-armed natives. "When the Prince of Wales reveiw - - ed 4000 natives in traditional fighting kit of feathers, armed with assegais and knobkerries, singing a war chant punctuated with stabbing imaginary foes, a South African officer told me that every song was a veiled threat. Meanwhile pretty, bare-armed European girls photographed the warriors as if it were a Wembley side-show. —A. and N.Z.