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and that resentment at having been thus forced into the
deceased’s service and some feeling of desperation as to
his prospects of ever getting away from deceased’s
service afforded the motive for the commission of this
crime. . . . Had I had before me at the trial all the informa-
tion which is now available I should have added to my
verdict a recommendation to mercy.’ (Transvaal Crimi-
nal Records, No. 8 of 196).
“The Native was duly hanged.”
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THE FARMERS’ PROPOSALS.
The Transvaal Agricultural Union sent the inter
departmental committee a copy of the evidence which a
deputation from that body laid before the Native Affairs
Commission on Nov. 11.
This deputation urged “ the complete segregation of
the Natives from the towns and the gradual repatriation
of all male Natives, except such as are housed under the
compound system.”
“The deputation asked for a board representative of
the mining and agricultural industries to be appointed to
regulate the number of Natives admitted to work in urban
areas. The board should have the power to restrict
gradually the number of Natives entering urban areas in
search of work and to divert them into other directions.”
The idea apparently is to reproduce at the towns the
system that exists at the mines and to replace the pre-
sent Native villages (locations) by compounds for single
men or at least men without their families. This would
mean that the families evacuated from their present
houses in the locations would have to find homes some-
where else, and, as there is not room for them in the more
congested reserves, they would be forced to apply for per-
mission to live on farms, where the men would be obliged
to give three month’s labour in each year to the farmers
without pay before they left for the town compounds to
work for a wage, leaving their families on the farms for
the rest of the year.
The disastrous effects on Native social life that such
a system entails are obvious.
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