Daily Worker An article from the Daily Worker entitled ‘Africans & Indians to Unite’, 23 December 1951

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Africans & Indians to Unite

By the FOREIGN EDITOR

Africans have decided to join the Indian community in South Africa in a planned campaign of non-co-operation in 1952.

This decision was taken at the meeting of the African National Congress which had just been held in Bloemfontein. It is historic because it brings Indians and Africans into a united planned campaign of resistance for the first time.

They are resisting the Malan Government’s racial laws against both peoples.

The Congress describes the action, to take place in 1952, as intended “for the redress of the just and legitimate grievances of the majority of the South African people”.

PASS LAWS

The laws against which the two communities will act are:

The Pass Laws, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Bantu Authorities Act and certain other regulations.

This legislation is the basis of racial discrimination and persecution in South Africa.

If the Government does not repeal these measures by February 29, 1952, says the Congress, the people will have no alternative to launch the mass campaign.

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