§ 67. Mr. John Dugdaleasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on how many occasions during the past 12 months permission has been refused to Africans to hold meetings in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
§ Mr. ProfumoIn Nyasaland there have been twelve such refusals, out of 383 applications.
87WFor Northern Rhodesia precise figures are not available. During the Emergency in the Western Province, from 11th September to 31st December, 1956, no public meetings were allowed for Africans, or Europeans, without permission, which was rarely granted. Apart from this, there have been no cases of permission for meetings being refused to Africans by the Police, and several hundred meetings have been held by Africans in the large towns. In Native Authority areas, where a large number of meetings have also been held, the Northern Rhodesian Government know of 25 cases in which permission has been refused by the Native Authority or Chief concerned.