THE BRAKPAN REPRIEVE.
A MINISTER’S WARNING, By Telegraph—Press Associatin'i—Copyright CAPETOWN, Dec. 27. Mr. Duncan, Minister of the Interior, in his first ministerial utterance on the subject of the Brakpan reprieve, said the Government had decided to commute the sentences, not because they did not recognise the terrible nature of the crimes, but because they felt the men were not personally guilty of the murders, and because they were misled and did not understand what they were doing, but he wished to say very seriously that South Africa could not go on like this. She could not go on having a revolution every few years. They were a small people and had to maintain European civilisation, and if they were to fight each other every few years civilisation would die.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1922, Page 6
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129THE BRAKPAN REPRIEVE. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1922, Page 6
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