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Northern Rhodesia there is an African Education Department for which responsibility is at present exercised by the same Secretary as for the European

age 3299f587 indigenous (1) African pass are 1

regio Department).

Africans in Northern and Southern Rhodesia. In Nyasaland there are no pass laws (save for the night passes under the Township Regulations), but non-indigenous Africans must register on entering the Protectorate. In Southern Rhodesia, which has a large immigrant African population, there are pass laws applicable to non-indigenous Africans which are more stringent than those applied to indigenous Africans in their own territories. Under present circumstances, these are in part necessary to implement inter-territorial agreements relating to migrant labour and also in the view of the Southern Rhodesia Government-they are in part necessary in the interests of good order. These differences are set out in greater detail in the Comparative Survey of Native Policy. (k) In the northern territories no legal or administrative restrictions are placed upon the employment of Africans in any post in the Government service for which they may be suitably qualified. In those territories there is at present a wider range of responsible posts occupied by Africans than in Southern Rhodesia, where, in particular, Africans are not gener- ally employed as clerks, compositors, telegraphists or surveyors. The Public Services Act in Southern Rhodesia at present debars Africans from appointment to posts as defined in the Public Services Act, but consideration is now being given to the greater employment of Africans in clerical and manipulative work in the Public Service. In the mean- time should a suitable qualified African be available for appointment to a technical or professional post, a post would be created for him. There is no limit to Africans' field of employment in their own areas or in the departments referred to in paragraph (i) as providing services for Africans.

(1) The Southern Rhodesia Government spends considerably more per head of the African population on such African services as health, education, irrigation and soil conservation than do the northern Governments, although an exact comparison is not possible owing to overlapping of European and African services and, to a lesser extent, the varying responsibilities assumed for such services by local government bodies and by industrial concerns (as, for example, the mining companies).

ANNEX III

(Paras. 51 and 95 of Report)

AFRICAN AFFAIRS BOARD AND MINISTER FOR AFRICAN INTERESTS

Composition of the Board

1. The African Affairs Board would consist, in addition to a Chairman, of three members from each territory, one being the Secretary for Native Affairs, one an unofficial or elected member of the Legislature appointed by the Governor of the territory and the third an African, also appointed by the Governor of the territory.

Functions of the Board

2. The Board would have three main functions:

(i) To examine before publication, from the point of view of African interests, all proposed legislation (both principal and subsidiary) and to

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