SOOTH AFRICA’S FUTURE
SECESSION ISSUE REVIVED. ABSOLUTE AUTONOMY THE GOAL. Pt*« Association—By Telegraph—CopyrigUv CAPTOWN, September 9. The secession issue was reopened by tho Minister of Justice (Mr T. J. Roos) in a by-election speech in Pretoria South. He declared that he had never gone back on this point. The only.point on which he had yielded was in to far as the pact with Labour was concerned, otherwise ho was still bound by the party’s constitution. They must work to secure absolute political and ioconomio freedom, which must mean separation from the British Empire. These sentiments must become general. Not a single drop of blood would be snilt for this cause if ho could help it. Only by convincing their brothers would they gain their end. At the same meeting Mr Roos threatened to resign if the Government allowed natives to sit in Parliament. Neither Mr Hertzog nor anyone else, ho said, had decided that natives should ho directlv represented in Parliament. The Transvaal Nationalists would see that that never happened.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19582, 11 September 1925, Page 7
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