NATIVE PROBLEM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 7

NATIVE PROBLEM

IN SOUTH AFRICA SELECT COMMITTEE’S REPORT BASIS FOR SETTLEMENT (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) CAPETOWN, 30th April. After nine years’ consideration the joint select committee produced two Bills as a basis for settlement of the native problem. A Representation Bill prohibits further registration of natives as parliamentary voters, but gives natives of the whole Union the right to e(lcct through electoral colleges four European senators and two members of the Capo Provincial Council, for which natives are eligible. A Natives Representative Council for the Union will be constituted to consider all legislation affecting them. Chiefs will be entitled to vote corresponding to the strength of their tribes. The Native Trust and Land Bill allocates for native occupation an additional fifteen million acres of land over and above the twenty million acres forming the existing native reserves. Lands will be merged in a native trust and funds be allocated for development of native territories and advancing native interests.