THE KAFFIRS AND BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1219, 10 July 1885, Page 3

THE KAFFIRS AND BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

o A distinctive feature about a South Afiican village is the presence of the coloured population. In tho eastern province and near Kaffirland the natives are re'egated to a separate location just outside tho village proper. They constitute village upon a village. They are employed as servants and labourers of every description, and a few of them arc educated Tho educational scheme embraces them if they wish to learn. In lac‘, there is nothing to prevent the black men mounting up to the highest educational posi-iou, so philanthropic is the Government scheme, hut tho fact is they are rarely able to do so. The Kaffirs and the black men generally are happier, I think, it they can bo allowed to live in there own way a little. They love to be allowed to celebrate their usywaCa, sing their national songs by themselves in spite of philanthropic legislation. In Natal a laitsaz fa ire policy exists There the native is al lowed to carry on polygamy, celebrate his orgies,and live under his recognised chief within the limits of .spacious reserves. But when he comes within a European town or village ho is under stricter rule. At the curfew’s sound he is compelled to bo at his home, whenever it be, and no black idlers are allowed iu tha streets. And if he wants to reform ho must do it. gradually. It is a mistake for colonists to absorb into the body poliliq ui masses of untrained citizens.—“ Macmillan’s Magazine.”