"SOUTH-WEST AFRICA IS OURS"
NO QUESTION OF RETURN TO GERMANY JOHANNESBURG, Ist November. A definite reply to Dr Malan’s suggestion that South-West Africa should be returned to Germany was given by Colonel Deneys Reitz, Minister of Agriculture, when he addressed a meeting in Pietersburg. “No one has any business to make such suggestions about South-West Africa,” said Colonel Reitz. “SouthWest Africa is ours. It belongs to the Union of South Africa and it will remain in our possession. It is best that there should be no misapprehension about that.
“South-West Africa is just as much portion of the Union as this Pietersburg district is a portion. It belonged to us originally and will now continue to.”
Colonel Reitz went on to say that in the old days it was a common procedure to throw colonies about among big powers, but that state of aiTairs had come to an end. So far as South Africa was concerned, the people of South Africa would definitely want to have a say in any distribution of colonies, since it was they who had pioneered South Africa and had made it fit for habitation by the white man.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 16 December 1937, Page 10
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