DIAMOND INDUSTRY
SOUTH AFRICAN MINES. CAPETOWN, March 12. The Assembly carried the second reading of the Government’s Diamond Control Bill, which General Smuts described as the nationalisation of the mines in the worst possible way. The Bill places the sale of all diamonds produced in South Africa in the hands of a Board to be appointed. On behalf of the Government, it was urged that this was simply an enabling measure, and might not be put into operation. Representatives of the diamond interests opposed the measure on the ground that a delicate business was being taken out of the hands of the Diamond Syndicate and being placed under the control of a Board of amateurs.
General Hertzog informed a deputation that he had decided to accept General Smuts’s suggestion to refer the Colour Bar Bill, restricting the employment of natives and Asiatics in connection with the mines, to a select Committee.
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Southland Times, Issue 19502, 17 March 1925, Page 6
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