KAFFIR SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 December 1913, Page 4

KAFFIR SUFFRAGETTES.

Recently at Jagersfontein, in South Africa, about sixty native women, adorned with a bunch of blue ribbon and carrying dags, ranged themselves j opposite the Court House, and in due course entered the magistrate’s pre-j sonee to answer a charge ot refusing to carry passes (which are issued for | purposes of identification). Some time ago (says South Africa) the women appealed to the magistrate to stop the pass system. This, of course, he could not do, and they decided upon passive resistance. The women were, orderly, and before entering the Court, House saug “God Save the King. ] The ringleader was a Mozambique women named Aploon. The magistrate j fined Aploon £3 or 30 days, and the j rest amounts from os or seven days, j Some 52 wore removed to gaol. ln| the afternoon a largo number of native j girls paraded the streets singing, | shouting, and flaunting the badge oi their suffragetism. They made a rush j to the spot where the fifty convicted women were under police guard waiting transport to Fauresmitb, and so large did the crowd become that the police had to requisition the fire hose to disperse them. Hater on mounted constables, with sjamboks (rhinoceros hide whips), cleared the streets. The native men deplored this onthvust, hut quaintly said: “AA omen are always silly.” They urged the recalcitrants to be law-abiding, and wait for the law to be altered.