SUBVERSION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Activity Of Cultural Society
GOVERNMENT THREAT TO USE FULL POWERS
(Received September 13, 7.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, September 12.
The Minister of the Interior, Mr H. Lawrence, endorsing the warning of the Prime Minister, General J. C. Smuts, that the Government intended to use full powers to curb subversive activities, detailed the actions of the Ossewabrandwag, an organization formed as an Afrikaans cultural society. “Subversive elements have appointed guards for public utility buildings, with badges representing them to be soldiers,” said Mr Lawrence. “Attempts have been made to tamper with the loyalty of the police, railway employees and soldiers and obtain military information and arms. The Ossewabrandwag organizations of ‘Wildmen’ are obviously getting out of hand and General Smuts is determined to maintain internal security.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 5
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