Africa’s People
There are now in the Union of South Africa seven natives or other coloured folk to every two Europeans! That is the remarkable revelation of the 1935 census, and it more than confirms expectations. In 1921 the Union had 6,928,000 people; in 1936 these had increased to 9,588,000. Nearly the whole of this great growth is accounted fot by the natives, the European growth being only 481,000. For the South African whites thus to growth at the rate ot only 30,000 a year is a very serious thing. It is a condition of stagnation which, if continued, will doom South Afrca as a white man's land. The Union consists of the two mainly British States of Cape Colony and Natal and the two mainly Boer States of the Transvaal and Orange Colony. White immigrants are only welcome if they bring capital, and this bfcrs the entry of poor white men. Even if that were not so natives are employed to do the hard work, and white workmen sre not in demand.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 10
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