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APPENDIX
IMMIGRATION POLICY
Present Position
At the present time immigration into Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland is subject to legislation and regulations which differ from territory to territory. In all three territories, however, though to a differing degree in each, the immigration legislation and regulations have proved inadequate to solve immigration problems which are common to the whole area. In particular, they are not effective in restricting the numbers of Afrikaners included in the immigrants from the Union of South Africa, which represents a grave political threat to the future of Central Africa.
2. The problem of Afrikaner immigration is at present much more serious for the two Rhodesias than for Nyasaland, and probably more serious for Northern than for Southern Rhodesia. In Southern Rhodesia, up to 1946, immigrants born in the Union of South Africa outnumbered those born in the British Isles. During the period 1946 to 1949 this trend was reversed and immigrants born in the British Isles were in the majority. But in 1950 the old position was restored and Union- born immigrants were once more in the majority. In Northern Rhodesia immi- grants born in the Union of South Africa have always since the war exceeded those born in the British Isles and have also represented a higher proportion of the total immigrants than have those entering Southern Rhodesia. Detailed figures are as follows:
Born in British Isles
1938
1946
1947
Southern Northern Southern Northern Southern Northǝrn Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia
Rhodesia Rhodesia
Rhodesia
South Africa...
1,237 660 3,582 1,534 1,263 4,654
974
6,320 1,446
2,221
5,104 2,361
1948
1949
Born in
British Isles ... South Africa...
1950 (Jan.-Oct.) Southern Northern Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia
Southern Northern Southern Northern Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia
8,574 4,410
1,990 5,908 2,392 5,173
2,197 3,959 1.929 3,146 7,041 3,360
No reliable emigration figures are available, but it is known that a considerable number of immigrants from the Union do return there after a short stay in the Rhodesias.
3. It is not easy to determine how many of the Union-born immigrants are Afrikaners and what proportion of these are Afrikaner nationalists. A fairly reliable guide is provided by the figures for membership of the Dutch Reformed Church. In the 1946 census in Northern Rhodesia 18 per cent. of the entire European population were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. In Southern Rhodesia in 1946 the proportion was 14 per cent., but it is now believed to be about 16 per cent. In both territories there are now areas where Afrikaners are in the majority. There is, moreover, reason to believe that steps are being taken by Nationalist organisations in the Union to encourage the emigration to the Rhodesias of persons of Nationalist outlook, though there is no evidence to show that the Union Government are associated with these moves.
4. Under existing legislation in force in Northern Rhodesia the Government has little power to prevent anybody entering the territory unless he falls within the narrowly defined category of prohibited immigrant; and the powers available in Nyasaland are not much greater. In Southern Rhodesia the position is in several respects different. Not only can a potential immigrant be excluded on the grounds of his general undesirability, but all immigrants have to deposit or to have an employer's guarantee for £100, or have a private income of £500 a year; they must also satisfy certain health requirements. Furthermore there is a quota system for aliens. Page 366 of 587 ·
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