BRITONS AND BOERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21116, 25 February 1932, Page 8

BRITONS AND BOERS.

SOUTH AFRICA'S PEOPLE. DUTCH IN RURAL AREAS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] CAPETOWN, Jan. 14. Generally speaking, only in «the cities of South Africa do the inhabitants of English descent outnumber the Dutch descendants. In 125 of the 183 magisterial districts in the Union, Dutch constitute more than 50 per cent, of the population. These facts are brought to light by the official census report. The report contains a map which shows that the Dutch population forms the bulk of the rural population. " The white colonisation of the Union might be pictorially represented by a Briton chasing a Boer," states the report. " The four colonies, which combined to form the Union, were eseh in turn founded by the Dutch and annexed by the British. When annexation took place the Dutch generally moved on to the lands beyond, a good deal of which had been cleared by internecine native wars. " Ultimately the British went beyond the Dutch, cutting off the road to the north by annexing what is now Rhodesia. The Dutch having made a stand against the encroaching Briton, and having been overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers in the Boer War, Sonth African history entered into a new phase." No less than 58.17 per cent, of the Union's population was enumerated in urban areas.