Efforts to establish an Afrikaaner economic bloc are strongly condemned in the Port Elizabeth United Party paper, One Land, which declares that such attempts are based on suspicion and hatred and points out that the future of South Africa depends on cooperation between races.
The paper warns that “attempts to obtain quick results by means of a bloc will result in failure and will only enrich a few Afrikaaner managers. It is nonsense to suggest that the English and the Jews form an economic bloc.”
Meanwhile, Nationalist Deputy Eric Louw, who introduced an anti-Jewish immigration bill a year ago, is continuing his campaign for an Afrikaaner bloc. Addressing a meeting at Tulbach, he said that South Africa was aiming at economic as well as political independence.
“What is the use, “he said,”if we obtain a free, independent republic if South Africa is enslaved to foreign exploiters.” Louw referred to the Jews as the “greatest self-help society”and urged Afrikaaner country lawyers to see that the work they sent to the cities was given to Afrikaaners.
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