SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14957, 3 January 1919, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

AGITATION FOR WIDER

AUTONOMY,

C&gstraliaa and N.Z. Cable Association)

Capetown, Dec. 31

58. message from Pretoria says that %kp Government and the Dutch press ?Bleo developing a tendency to advocate if. greater measure of autonomy, hinting Sfe far-reaching changes in the direction of what General Botha, in *a recent fiondoh interview, termed constitutional srS&djastment.

For instance, the ""Yolkstem," the 'jfficial Government organ, animadverts tiftaxx the British Ti-easury Committee's dicta regarding the control of gold a*ning development, and the Imperial Hfitfcation Commission's statement regarding encouragement of students 4£t>m overseas.

>Whe paper says: "Our own Parliawent must be the sole arbiter of the (gild industry's fate in South Africa's Mtero3ts exclusively, whilst our youths isfeould shape their study so as to i>ec^ne South Africans, not Englishmen <Sj ofeher Europeans."