THE NATIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 23 November 1912, Page 14

THE NATIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

_ Sir,—ln your leading article in to-day's issue on the "South African ivative Problem," the writer of that articlo cannot be conversant with the situation. To say "that the S.A. Dutch are not capable of keeping the natives in subjection does not bear out the experience of those who have lived in ' the Transvaal or Orange sYee State." General Botha is recognised to be the best authority of how to deal with the Natives, considering that he established his homo alongside the mighty Zulus, in the country known aa the New Republic, Vryheid District, the last territory taken from the Zulus. General Botha's opinion on this question will be taken before Lord Milner's, whose administrative ability was not thought much of in South Africa, and Earl Grey is. scarcely mentioned. You do ' hear something about the late Sir Geo. Grey. The kinder you are to these natives, and the more privileges .you allow them the bigger fool they take you for. The Dutch do not allow a native to ttddress them without bowing and saying "Boss;" they do not allow them to use the footpaths. Books could be written on this question. But the native is best left to the Dutch, in the opinion of ONE WHO HAS BEEN THERE.