In June 1908, the Federal Government of Southern Africa conducted its first census.

Inadvertently, the Chinese have become the largest ethnic group in southern Africa, with a total population of 834,000.

Although a large number of Boers died during the Boer War, were either exiled or left southern Africa, there were still 710,000 Boers in the nine states of southern Africa, the second largest ethnic group in southern Africa.

Then there are the other whites, including the British, with a total population of only 657,000.

These three groups are the main population with normal citizenship rights in southern Africa, and the most populous Africans are not included in the statistics at all, so the federal government does not know how many Africans there are in southern Africa now, only an approximate estimate, about 4.5 million.

The combined population of the three citizenship groups is only 2.201 million, compared to the total area of 3.24 million square kilometres in the nine states of southern Africa, with an average of less than 0.7 people per square kilometre.

What is now southern Africa includes the future South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and central Mozambique, plus part of Congolese territory.

It should be noted that except for Botswana, which is a plateau terrain that is not suitable for the development of agriculture and can only develop animal husbandry, other regions of southern Africa are very suitable for the development of agriculture, so although the current agriculture in southern Africa is not developed, agriculture will definitely become the economic pillar of southern Africa in the future.

Among these 2.201 million people, the number of people who have received higher education is less than 3,000, and because of the current situation in southern Africa, most of the people who have received higher education are still employed by various enterprises and mines, and even many staff members of the federal government are illiterate and do not even have the most basic reading and writing skills, so the federal government's demand for high-quality talents can be imagined.

The current situation in southern Africa determines that it is difficult for the federal government to obtain high-quality talents from Europe, and compared with southern Africa, high-quality talents in Europe are more willing to venture to the New World and are not willing to accept employment from the federal government of southern Africa at all, and even the first choice of ordinary people is Australia, Canada and other white countries, rather than southern Africa, a multi-ethnic country.

"Can you imagine that only six of the fifteen first-class secretaries in the Secretariat of the Prime Minister's Office have studied in Europe, and after graduating from high school, they can become secretaries in the federal government and assist the Prime Minister in handling paperwork, and more than ninety percent of the staff of the Ministry of Education do not know English, and the total number of papers used by your Ministry of Defense in a month is less than a hundred, because many people are illiterate and cannot use them at all-" Sidney Milner poured bitterness when he saw Roque, and his eyes were red even when he looked at the students who had not yet graduated.

If Sidney Milner only complains about the Secretariat and the Ministry of Education, then Roque will let it go, and it would be nice for the Secretariat to have six people who have studied in Europe, and the situation of the Ministry of Education is because of Jan Smoltz, just because Jan Smoltz is a Boer, so the vast majority of the staff of the Ministry of Education are Boers, don't forget that the British and the Boers were still at war a few years ago, and the Boers are willing to learn English.

As for the Ministry of War, don't expect those ** dancers who only know how to march and fight, the reason why Hopkins wants to move the office of the Ministry of War away from the Palace of Justice is also because Ade really can't get used to the work status of the Ministry of War, and even Hopkins himself often leads people to gather people to drink in the office, and the ministers are like this, so don't expect the staff to work hard.

Of course, there is no way to work hard, the current federal government is not the same thing as the previous local government, all departments are gradually formalized, these people will be eliminated sooner or later, and now it is a mess.

"Speaking of purpose, I know better than you about the situation in the War Department-" Roque was too busy to be Sidney Milner's tree hole.

"How many graduates from the University of Nyasaland are there this year?" Sidney Milner has a big appetite.

“1375！” Roark is concise and to the point.

“1375！ 1375 graduates, you actually only give me 25 people? No, I'll want at least five hundred! Give me 500 graduates! Sidney Milner was instantly emotional.

"Impossible, these 1,375 people, nearly 1,000 of them are commission trainees of enterprises in Nyasaland, they are going to return to their original units to work, and among the remaining graduates, some of them will continue to stay in school for further study, and some of them have signed contracts with the Nyasaland government before graduation, and the 25 people you squeezed out are still from the Nyasaland government, otherwise there are not even these 25 people." Roque categorically vetoed that this was only the first batch of graduates of the University of Nyasaland, and excluding those commission trainees, there would be less than 400 graduates in total, not to mention the entire federal government, these 400 people could not even meet Nyasaland's demand for talent.

The point is that this is a talent cultivated by Nyasaland itself, and the recognition of Nyasaland is different from that of immigrants from Europe.

During the Boer War, many of the whites who were willing to go to the front to fight for the British government were born and raised in southern Africa, while those new immigrants from Europe mostly returned to Europe or went to other colonies in search of opportunities.

So whether or not the UK Board of Education recognises the diploma of the University of Nyasaland, the graduates of the University of Nyasaland have no worries about jobs, and there is an absolute seller's market for good jobs that can be picked and dropped by college students who have just stepped out of school.

Not to mention anything else, a large part of the 25 people that Roque squeezed into Sidney Milner will definitely work in the federal government secretariat, maybe some of them will be first-class secretaries when they arrive at the secretariat, that is, there will be such an opportunity in the past few years, and in a few years, such a good thing will not be thought of.

"Locke, don't do this, give more, even if it's only a hundred, the Prime Minister has to work until two o'clock in the morning every day, Dr. Simpson has issued a warning to the Prime Minister's health, don't you want to make it easier for the Prime Minister?" What's more, you must know what kind of benefits these graduates will bring to Nyasaland and the Chinese people in southern Africa when they work in the federal government, so their value should not be limited to Nyasaland-" Sidney Milner is also bitter, in order to get more talent, even if he is a little quieter, it is no problem.

It should be noted that the vast majority of the graduates this time are of Chinese descent, and many of them are the families of the first batch of Chinese police officers in Cape Town who came to southern Africa.

When Roque was in Oak Town, he insisted on educating the families of Chinese police officers.

After coming to Johannesburg, Roque established Ziwei College, and almost all the families of Chinese police officers at that time successfully entered Ziwei College for further education.

When the University of Nyasaland opened its enrollment, the families of the first batch of Chinese police officers had received five or six years of formal education, which was not complete compared to secondary education, but it was enough to enter the University of Nyasaland.

Compared with most people in southern Africa, it is not easy to receive five or six years of formal education, after all, the Boer War ended in 1902, and then until 1904, southern Africa still did not have a complete public education system, so Ziwei College stood out.

One thing is for sure, when these Chinese graduates enter the federal government, they will definitely be more emotionally inclined to Chinese Americans, and more inclined to Nyasaland and the Transvaal, where Chinese Americans are concentrated, which will have a subtle impact on the federal government's policies.

What's more, in the foreseeable next few years, many of these first young people will enter the federal government in leadership positions, which will have a huge impact on the future federal government of Southern Africa.

"Sidney, I know that there is a big gap on your side, but you also have to understand the specific situation in Nyasaland, just now you said that only six of the fifteen first secretaries of the federal government secretariat have studied in Europe, you feel that this is already miserable, right? Perhaps you don't know that all the secretaries of the Nyasarstate government add up to less than fifteen, only Governor Andong has a permanent secretary, and the heads of other departments even need to share secretaries to handle clerical work, can you imagine the scene of a group of ministers queuing up to find a secretary to make a report? "Roque can't help it, the federal government has a big talent gap, and the Nyasa state government is even bigger.

The federal government is the central government of southern Africa, and if there is not enough manpower, it can also be transferred from local governments such as the Cape and the Transvaal, and Nyasaland is a state dominated by Chinese, and the vast majority of Chinese have not received English education before, so the gap in this area is even more serious.

Sidney Milner was still trying to fight, when he suddenly saw Anton, who was full of red light and refreshed.

So Sidney Milner immediately gave up on Roque: "Okay, I'm not going to discuss this with you, I'm going to Governor Anthony-"

Anton's English name is Anthony.

At this moment, it was clear that Anton was in a good mood, not realizing that Sidney Milner was going to fight him, and Anton's attention was on Douglas, who was also flushed and refreshed.

Douglas was also in a good mood, the other day Douglas went to Roque, and Roque sent a telegram to Sidney Milner, and then Ade sent a telegram directly to the British Education Council and the current British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in his capacity as Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Southern Africa.

Douglas did not know the exact content of Ade's telegram, but it is said that Ade was scolding the members of the Board of Education, criticizing the Board of Education for deliberately suppressing the development of education in southern Africa, and claiming that if the Board of Education did not recognize the diploma of the University of Nyasaland, then the federal government of Southern Africa would withdraw from the British Board of Education.

The threat is still effective, and the Federal Government of Southern Africa, which is part of the British Commonwealth, is indeed a member of the British Education Council.