Documents - Part Three The Programme Of Action In 1950

Document 83. "National Day of Protest and Mourning, Stay at Home on Monday, 26th June!" Flyer issued by [twelve persons], June 15, 1950

NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AND MOURNING

STAY AT HOME
ON
MONDAY, 26TH JUNE!

A CALL TO THE PEOPLE OF CAPE TOWN

   The four leading organisations of the people in South Africa--the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress, the A.P.O. and the Communist Party, have declared MONDAY, 26th JUNE, 1950, as a NATION­AL DAY OF PROTEST against the Group Areas Bill and the Suppression of Communism Bill, and as a DAY OF MOURNING for all those who have lost their lives in the struggle for liberation in South Africa.
   In his appeal to the people of South Africa to observe MONDAY, 26th JUNE, by remaining at home on that day, Dr. J. S. Moroka, President-General of the African National Congress, stated:--
"The African National Congress and other National and local organisa­tions are required by the clear implications of the Suppression of Communism Bill to fight the last fight against the Pass Laws, against low wages, against the Urban Areas Act, the Group Areas Bill, the Riotous Assemblies Act, lack of housing accommodation, of franchise rights, of educational facilities and against every other disability which has been and is the lot of the ruled in this country."
In Durban, Johannesburg and all the main centres in South Africa the people will be staying at home on MONDAY, 26th JUNE.

We, the undersigned, call upon the people of Cape Town to play their part in the struggle for freedom, and observe MONDAY, 26th JUNE, by staying quietly in their homes, closing their shops, and keeping their children from school.

Down with the Group Areas Bill!
Down with the Suppression of Communism Bill!
Down with Nationalist Tyranny!
Long live the struggle for Freedom and Equality!

Signed:

COUNCILLOR A. ISMAIL
J. N. NGWEVELA
MOSES M. KOTANE
SUNDRA PILLAY 
JOSEPH NKATLO 
F. CARNESON, M.P.C.                  

N. D. KOTA
COUNCILLOR S. DOLLIE
J. W. G. ALLEN
E. A. PARKER
CLR. SAM KAHN, M.P.
R. NDIMANDE

STAY AT HOME FOR FREEDOM
ON MONDAY, 26th JUNE!

(Issued by F. Carneson, P.O. Box 1176, Cape Town, on behalf of the above.
June 15, 1950.)
Printed by Pioneer Press (Pty.), Ltd., 27, Oxford Street, Woodstock

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