The South-African crisis - pagina 30

THE SOUTH-AFRIKAN

26

CRISIS.

face the difficulty of the colour question

wich the English

have persistently kept out of view. The Blacks are increasing in South Africa to an extent which may

Of

well give cause for uneasiness.

old they

had massa-

autumn.

But now

cres

amongst

they

have ceased to be nomads; they multiply from

3^ear

te

a

which

whether

every

and ere long their numbers

year,

figure

as

themselves

become menacing

will

Boers or English.

A

gradual extinction such

which has almost destroyed the American

that

Indians,

not

is

at

all

likely

to take place in South

1805 there were in Cape Colony 60,000 Blacks,

Africa. In

Javanese included;

now they number

i)

The Basutos number 250,000. native

will reach

for the whites

population

is

2)

In Bechuanaland the

estimated at 250,000.

Transvaal they number 763,225.

1150,337

*).

^)

In the

In the Free State

there are 128,787. Finally in Natal there are 459,283,

without counting

50,000

Indians,

')

so that

we have

a total of from three to four millions of Blacks against

but

we

The

Whites.

748,536

gather

figures

for 1891 are wanting,

from some returns that the increase

has gone on since then. Already these Blacks so far as they are Christianised have entred into relations

with their coloured brethren of America. Methodist

bishop

has

A

coloured

been appointed president of a

kind of Negro council in Africa.

And, do not believe

that the Christianising of these blacks has obliterated 1)

Aitton History of South Africa p. 196.

2)

Official

")

Statesniayis

1)

Staats-aJmanak

5)

Cape Argus

Handbook

p.

Yearbool;

p.

p. 53.

403.

233. pp. 180, '182.

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