BOERS IN PORTUGUESE SOUTH AFRICA
LIKELY TO RETURN TO TRANSVAAL Cape Town, February 21. Four hundred Boer families, numbering three thousand people, who trekked from the Transvaal to Angola, in consequence of an alleged breach of faith on the part of the Portuguese relating to the titles of farms, the education of children, and language, are threatening to return to the Union. Three delegates have concluded an interview with the Administrator in the south-west and the Union Secretary of Lands, at which they described the position in the settlement as being intolerable. They merely acted rs a buffer between marauding natives and the Portuguese, and were given no rights The Administrator offered land to a hundred and fiftv families, but the Union must bear all expenses. Cabinet is now considering the matter.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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132BOERS IN PORTUGUESE SOUTH AFRICA Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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