STATUS OF NATIVES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 8

STATUS OF NATIVES

LEGISLATIVE CHANGES IN AFRICA United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 1, 7.15 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 30. After nine years’ consideration a Joint Select Committee has produced two Bills as the basis for the settlement of the native problem. The Representation Bill prohibits further registration of natives as parliamentary voters, but gives the natives of the whole Union the right to elect, through electoral colleges, four European Senators, and two members of the Cape Provincial Council, for which natives are eligible. The Natives Representative Council for the Union will be constituted to consider all the legislation affecting them. Chiefs will r be entitled to a vote, corresponding to the strength of their tribes. The Native Trust and Land Bill, allocates for native occupation, an additional 15.000,000 acres of land, over and above the 20,000,000 acres forming the existing native reserves. The lands will be merged in the native trust, and funds will be allocated for the development of native territories, advancing native interests.