SCOUTING IN SOUTH AFRICA
WHAT "B-P” SAYS An article by Lord Baden-Powell in the Times on the Scout movement in Africa makes some interesting comments on the difficulties it has met with owing to racial prejudice in the Union. The Chief Scout writes with natural pride of the success of his movement among Bechuanas, Barotse, Zulus, Basutos and other native tribes, and also among the whites, Boer and English, in the Union. But when the natives in the Union wished to become scouts their admission had to be postponed owing to the opposition it aroused. Yet Lord Baden-Powell says, nothing could be more necessary than a movement which by its educational and physical activities could restore to the natives something of the pride and self-esteem they have lost in the process by which their civilisation has been destroyed by the white man.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 10
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142SCOUTING IN SOUTH AFRICA Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 10
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