Conflict of Nationalities and Races. SSUMING the population of South Africa * to be

4,000,000, this total would be composed of 650,000 Europeans and 3,350,000 coloured people. The numerical relationship of the Europeans to the coloured people varies in the several colonies, states, and territories.

In the Cape Colony the Europeans are to the coloured people in the proportion of one to four; in Natal they are as one to twelve; in the Free State, as one to two; in the Transvaal, as one to four; in the Crown Colony of Bechu- analand, as one to ten; and in the territories of the Chartered Company, as one to one hundred.

Neither the coloured nor the European population is homogeneous.

The composition of the former is approximately shown by the subjoined table :—

Aborigines (Hottentots and Bushmen) . 50,000')

Of the 650,000 Europeans, if we omit to take account of other nationalities, probably 400,000 would be Dutch and 250,000 English. The two sections would approxi-

* As previously defined : Africa south of the Zambesi, omitting the German and Portuguese territories.

Bantu

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Military : i.e. Kafirs, Zulus, and allied tribes

2,350,000

- 3 . 35 0 . 000

Mixed Races (Cape “ boys ”) .

Malays .

700.000

250.000 i3,oooJ