3 MAY 1935, Page 2

The proposal that over 14,000,000 acres be set apart for

native settlement again suggests progress in itself, but there is no indication that the difficulties which have hitherto prevented the acquisition of such reserves have disappeared. The segregatiOn to which the report points is obviously a policy full of danger, robbing the educated native of the hope of a.share on. equal terms in the govern- ment of his country, while leaving black labour in the towns not in fact segregated but exploited.