SOUTH AFRICAN RACE LAW
Bill Goes To Senate
(Rec. 10 p.m.) CAPE TOWN. May 1
The South African House of Assembly tonight passed the third reading of the controversial Native Laws Amendment Bill by 79 votes to 48. The bill now goes to the Senate. Much of the 13-day debate centred on the most contentious of the 50 clauses in the bill—the so-called “church” clause. This would enable the Minister of Native Affairs to prohibit any native from attending church or a religious service on premises situated in a white area if he considered it would cause local residents any nuisance. The bill, which amends three separate statutes affecting Africans, stipulates that the Minister may not issue such an order without the consent of the urban authority concerned.
Replying to the debate, the Native Affairs Minister (Dr. H. Verwoerd) said that the church clause was concerned with certain social evils which might be created, against which people had a right to be protected. “It has nothing to do with the working of the church,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the freedom of religion or with the sovereignty of the church.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 9
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193SOUTH AFRICAN RACE LAW Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 9
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