AFRICA'S RACE PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14777, 17 October 1921, Page 5

AFRICA'S RACE PROBLEM

NATIONALISTS' POLICY, (Router's Telegrams.) Received October 17, 9.30 a~m. CAPETOWN, October 15. Outlining his party's policy at th« Nationalist Congress in Bloemfontein, General Hertzog said a distinction had to be made between the natives and coloured people. They are two totally different groups, and could not be treated on the same basis. The natives ' desire education and civilisation, and this could not be denied, yet the in- \ dustrial development of the native j would mean a menace to the white j man. The only honest pon'cy is terri- {, tonal segregation, to lead Anally to industrial segregation. The native would then have an opportunity to develop and become a valuable member of the community. There always had existed a colour bar, but there should be equality of rights for each colour in its own territory- Native segregation would open the way for the just treatment of coloured people, who w r ere to bo considered as partly Europeans, and would finally have to be treated as whites. They could not ignore the awakening among the natives, and he advised therefore segregation for the natives and the final absorption of the coloured people.