"SOUTH-WEST AFRICA IS OURS"
A definite reply to Dr. Malan's suggestion that South-West Africa should be returned to Germany was given by Colonel Deneys Reitz, Minister of Agriculture, when he addresseu a meeting in Pietersburg. "No one has any business to make such suggestiOns about Sottth-West Africa," said Colonel Reitz. "SouthWest Africa is ours. It belongs to the Union of South Africa and it will remain in our possession. It is best that there should be no misapprehension about that. "South-West Africa is just as much portion of the Union as this Pietersburg distrxct is a portion. It belonged to us originally and will now continue to. " Colonel Reitz went on to say that in the old days it was a common procedure to throw colonies about among big powers, but that state of affairs had come to an end. So far as South Africa was concerned, the people of South Africa would definitely want to liave a say in any distribution of colonies, since ifc was' they who had pioneered South Africa and h' 4 made xt fit for habitation by the white man.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 9
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