1946-Tenure Bill threat to Indian Cane Farmers
1946
Tenure Bill threat to Indian Cane Farmers
A careful examination of the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian presentation Bill from the point of the Indian sugar growers reveals the alarming fact that the provisions of the Bill are such as to eliminate, progressively, over a period of years, the majority of the Indians from the Industry.
The only Indian growers who will be safe are those who own freehold property. People farming on leasehold property are faced with the possibility that European lessors will refuse renewals to Indians and with no alternative land available, the small Indian grower will be compelled to give us his quota.
"No Hope of Equality" -- Mitchell
The Administrator of Natal, Mr. D. Mitchell, has emphatically declared to the Natal Indian Teacher's Society that there can new be equality of pay between Indian and European teachers. He was replying to a request for equal pay by the Society's representative when they met the Provincial Executive last week. His words were "Not a hope. We are not going to agree to that."
Even if unlimited funds were available, he said no such concession could ever be made in view of what South African society" must, in the Administration's views and in terms of Field-Marshal Smut's declared policy, remain.
