The year 1952 will be a most significant year in the history of the South African people and Indians must make it their duty to play their rightful role in the great struggle for democracy in the Union ...

We must make it known to the country and the world during 1952 that we are determined to defeat the policy of apartheid. The new year must find the Non-Europeans determined to fight their common battle unitedly.

My New Year message to the Indian people in particular is that they must have faith in themselves and in the justness of the cause of democracy. Unitedly we can defeat the evil plans of the Nationalist Government.

31 The Guardian , Cape Town, January 3, 1952