PRACTICALLY SLAVERY
SOUTH AFRICAN LAND BILL. EFFECT ON. NATIONS. ' Capetown, October 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 which 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 states that there is no possibility of natives generally being able to purchase land under the bill, consequently thousands must remain on farms as labour tenants or servants, or migrate to towns where their progress is barred by the Colour Bar Act. If they remain on farms boards will sit in each Magisterial district to distribute the labour tenant force among European proprietors in a manner which cannot truly be different from slavery.—A. & N.Z,
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Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 7
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158PRACTICALLY SLAVERY Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 7
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