§ 39. Mr. Sorefasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement over the position and future of British farmers in Tanzania and their threatened expulsion.
§ Mr. KershawI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Wall) on 3rd July.—[Vol. 840, c. 1.] Although President Nyerere has stated that large-scale private farming is eventually to be phased out, there is no reason to think that British farmers will be obliged to leave in the near future.
§ Mr. SorefIs my right hon. Friend aware that in The Times on 30th June President Nyerere was quoted as saying "There is no future for Europeans in socialist Tanzania. In the long run this is no country for you"?
1317 Is it not time there was a protest from Her Majesty's Government to Tanzania about its racialism, which is an example of the black Fascism occurring increasingly in countries on the African continent? Is it not time that the rights of British subjects in those countries were upheld by this House?
§ Mr. KershawWe have received no concrete proposals in this regard. Land transfer in Tanzania is not a matter of fundamental economic importance to that country. Since what we do in this case is likely to have considerable repercussions on what we might have to do in other cases, we must study it extremely carefully.