SLAVERY COMING BACK

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 11, 15 October 1926, Page 5

SLAVERY COMING BACK

SOOTH mm \M BILL CONDEMNED U 5 GREATO STATE AKIN TO SLAVERY (Received 11,r> a.m.) CAPETOWN, October 14. An important representative body known as the Joint Coun- , cil of European and Natives, which has been sitting for some time to consider native Bills, h a s issued a" lengthy memorandum. the main feature of which is strong condemnation of certain clauses in the Land Bill, which the Council maintains will introduce a condition scarcely distinguishable from slavery, and usher in a period of misfortune unparalleled' in the history of the country. ' ■lt points out that there is n 0 possibility of natives generally being able to purchase land under the Bill, and consequently thousands must remain on farms a s labour tenants or servants, or migrate to the towns, whe re 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 the European proprietors in a manner which cannot truly be differentiated from slavery.