SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

ELECTION PROSPECTS. PREPARING FOR THE FBAY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPETOWN, April 13. The real election fight will start after Easter. Meanwhile members and candidates are hurrying to their constituencies. Mr Cresswell will lead Labour on the Rand and Mr Boydell in Natal. Important meetings of the executive of the South African Party decided to oppose all independents, and to fight every seat. The proceedings were private, but it is understood that General Smuts made a stirring speech. Ho was in his best lighting form. He rallied the party, emphasising that the choice of the electors lay between a pact based on dissent and negation, and a sane Government which had secured the finances of the Union and had attained the most stable conditions. Prominent legislators not seeking reelection are: Messrs Murray, Bissett, Buchanan, Saunders, Greenacre, and Macketirtan; while Mr Merriman is also practically certain not to stand. Soon also there will be. a considerable reshuffling of seats. Mr Cresswell has returned to Johannesburg, and Mr Reitz (Minister of Lands), and one or twoother Ministers are going to different provinces. There will lie half-a-dozen Communist candidates on the Rand and in Durban. —Reuter.