Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Bechuanaland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 June 1964.
Mr Fenner Brockway
, Eton and Slough
12:00,
16 June 1964
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that three of these individuals are prohibited immigrants and, as such, come within the terms of political refugees; and that another 147 of them, if not political refugees, have been driven from South-West Africa because the land has been appropriated, under the Bantustan system, to Europeans? That being so, will something be done for them? They cannot gain a livelihood within 12 miles of Makunda and, if driven back to South-West Africa, they are liable to a sentence of three years' imprisonment, with six strokes of the cane each. Will the Government do something to save them from that?