“NOT BRITISH SUBJECTS”
INDEPENDENT AFRIKANDERS BUT KING IS THE BOND (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) CAPETOWN, Saturday. The status of South Africa continues to be the uppermost political issue in the back-veldt districts. Tho Prime Minister, General J. G. Hertzog, speaking at Frankfort, said the Governor-General represented, not Britain’s King, hut South Africa’s King, because the King could not be in South Africa and in Britain at the same time. “We are not British subjects, but the King is the bond between Britain and South Africa,” said General Hertzog. He paid a tribute to the advantage of British citizenship. Questioned as to the competency of South Africa to join an alliance against Britain, the Prime Minister replied that neither nation would be competent to form an alliance, which would conflict with the League of Nations. The Minister of Justice, Mr. Tielmaii Roos, was more definite in a speech at Johannesburg. He said independence was not the aim of the Nationalists, who were satisfied with the status of South Africa on which to build a future.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 485, 15 October 1928, Page 9
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