PROTECTING EUROPEANS'
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— lalan Resoived To Enforce Racial Segregation
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Received Wednesday, 9.40 a.m. J OHANNESBURG, Sept. 6. South Africa's Prime Minister, Dr. Malan, announced today that "to protect the European race" every citizen v/ould have to carry an identity card classifying him as a, European, "native," coloured or Indian. He told the Transvaal Congress of the Nationalist Party that his party was determined to enforce apartheid* (racial segregation). The Government was now resoived to abolish the direct vote of the coloured p'eople in Cape Province in the same way as it had aholished the representation of Indians in Parliament. Dr. Malan said that the Nationalists were determined to fight against the danger of Communism.
They realised the danger of Russia doing in Africa what she had done in other parts of the world — call for the support of non-European people who were a frightful field for Communist propaganda. The Government was determined to stop non-European students mingjling with European boys and girls :at "Witwatersrand and Capetowm (Universities, where they enjoyed equality.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1949, Page 5
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