SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES.

TERRITORIAL SEGREGATION ADVISED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlgtt. Capetown. Oct. |5. Outlining the party’s policy at the Nationalist Congress in Bloemfontein Mr. Hertzog said distinction had to be made between natives and colored people. They are two totally different groups and could not be treated on the same basis. The natives desire education and civilisation. This could not be denied, yet the industrial development of the native would mean the ruin of the white man. The only honest policy was territorial segregation, to lead finally to industrial suggestion, and the native would then have the opportunity to develop and would become a valuable member of the community. There always had existed the color bar, but there should be equality of rights for each color in its own territory. Native segregation would open the way for the just treatment of the colored people, who were to be considered partly Europeans and would finally have to be treated as whites. They could not ignore the awakening among the natives and he advised therefore segregation for the natives and the final absorption of the colored people.