Friday week was nomination day for the first South African
Parliament. Two of the four prosiness created by the new Constitution—Cape Colony and the Transvaal—will hold their elections for their Provincial Councils as well as for Parliament on the same day, September 15th. A fair number of well-known candidates have been returned unopposed.
The three -Transvaal Ministers, however, are all being opposed,—General Botha by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, General Smuts by a triple opposition (a Unionist, a Labour candidate, and an Independent), and Mr. Hull by Sir George Farrar. Dr. Jameson has urged Unionists to combine on the issue whether there shall be a revival of the old racial divisions which were supposed to have come to an end at the Conven- tion. Under the present Government, he says, that revival is being deliberately encouraged. General Hertzog has made some vehement speeches answering the charges that he is stirring up racialism and forcing the Dutch language on English children.
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