HELPING THE NATIVES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 5

HELPING THE NATIVES

j SOUTH AFRICAN PLAN i i PART IN POLITICS—MORE LAND RESERVED Press Association- -Copyngut j Capetown, April 30. I After n : ne years’ consideration a joint ! select committee has produced two Bills j as a basis for the settlement of the native } problem. These deal with their reprei sentation in Parliament and land ques--1 tions. | The Representation Bill prohibits the j further registration of natives as ParliaI mentary voters but gives natives of the \ whole union the right to elect, through j electoral colleges, four European senators I and two members of the Cape of Good j Hope Provincial Council for which natives will be eligible. i The natives’ representative council for : th.e Union is be constituted to consider j alii, legislation affecting them. Chiefs ; will be entitled to vote according to j the strength of their tribes.

I The Native Trust and Land Bill alloj cates for native occupation an additional ; 15,000,000 acres of land over and above ! the 20,000,000 acres forming the existing J native reserves. The lands will be merged in the Native Trust and funds will be j allocated for the development of native i territories and advancing native interJ ests.