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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1929, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA’S CLEAR COURSE “The choice before South Africa is clear enough,” says the- “Manchester Guardian.” “The hack veld farmer has always been- tempted to assume that the native was and should be a chattel, doomed to draw water and hew wood for his.white master. General Hertzog’s appeal has not put the matter as plainly as that, but he has appealed to that deep, instinctive prejudice. It is not a purely South African issue;-South Africa is in any. case• a self-governing community, and her salvation lies in her own hands. But -the problem •'■before her arises - acutely also in East Africa. So far the-white man has not'been notably successful in his relationships ■with the African.'- - His decision •’today is whether he shall ‘throughout East-and South Africa’ pursue a policy i which l denies fundamental human liberties to the black races- or whether he shall use -liis greater- intelligence and power to give to the black a status of self-respect nnd independence. But, however difficult, the effort to create a community of races instead of a white dominion is the only hopeful one. It 1 may he that General Hertzog • himself knows this. He has been amply warned by enlightened opinion in his own country.”