A DIVIDED NATION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 358, 20 October 1932, Page 4

A DIVIDED NATION

PROBLEMS WHICH CONFRONT 1 SOUTH AFRICA TO-DAY. | "New Zealand is in the happy posi-» tion of having one nation speaking tkP same language and aspiring to tkffl same ideals," writes a well-knownffl business man of Capetown in a letter® to a Gisborne friend. ^ '"Here in South Africa," he comI tinues, "we have a nation, split up four or five parts. One the one hani® we have white people made up of rikanders and Europeans. 0n other hand we have the natives, coloui® ed people and Asiatics. The difficulM of legislating for such a cosmopolite|| P'opulation is a serious one for thosg in charge of our Iegislative asseniffl lies, but our chief difficulty is that Afrilcanders and Europeans have S together different ideals, with the rjjjj sult that the country is satuated v';;|| racialism, which fetards the progwffl of a country providentially endow* with most of the good things in tt||l world. H "Although we have large g°^a1|| diamond deposits in "this country, /IB would he surprlsed to learn that p?jE| ple in South Africa are suffering a financial starvation. This has arisffl owing to the Nationalist Party, is principally composed of AfnKa^H ers, continuing to maintain the SoJBj African currency on a gold hasis. result is that many millions of _P°U^S have been sent to England withi|gH object of secui'ing the difi'erencej^j exchange between the South pound and English sterling. gaj "Our imports have fallen away Ct||| siderably, and a large number °t Pjgj ple are out of employment in s centres as Durban, Kimberley, jK London, Port Elizabeth and Capewg Better conditions prevail in the vaal, where the gold deposits ar/||B even there this financial starVa(M| has had a serious effect upon eB"||| prise in the golden city." .flf§