SOUTH AFRICA: Beginning of Secession?

Hots wisps of fire & brimstone oratory sulphured the news from Capetown last week. It appeared that South Africa's two greatest statesmen had been pitchforking at each other in Parliament on an issue which vitally concerns the whole Empire: Does Dominion Status include the Right of Secession?

Just back from a visit "up above" which included London and New York former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts angered and astonished a majority of the Union of South Africa's House of Assembly (Lower House) when he told them without mincing that they cannot secede...

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