NATIVES IN AFRICA.
STATUS ON THE LAND. OPPOSITION TO BILL. A. and N.Z. CAPETOWN. Oct. 14. An important representative body, known as the Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, which has been sitting for some time to consider Native Bills, has issued a lengthy memorandum.
The main feature of the memorandum is a strong condemnation of certain clauses in the Land Bill, which, the commission maintains, will introduce a condition scarcely distinguishable from slavery, and usher in a period of misfortune unparalleled in the history of the country. It says there is no possibility of the natives generally being able to purchase land under the bill, consequently thousands must remain on farms as labour tenants or servants, or else migrate to the towns, where their progress is barred by the Colour Bar Act. If they remain on farms a board will sit in each magisterial district to distribute the labour tenant force among European, proprietors in a manner which cannot bo truly differentiated from slavery. - - ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19460, 16 October 1926, Page 13
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