Documents: Part Two - The revival of the African national congress, 1937-1945

Document 22. "Mass Meeting, Africans Shot in Cold Blood." Flyer issued by Transvaal African Congress, for meeting on June 26, 1941

TRANSVAAL AFRICAN CONGRESS

MASS MEETING AFRICANS SHOT IN COLD BLOOD

A Mass Meeting of the Transvaal African Congress will be held at Newtown Market Square Johannesburg, on Thursday the 26th June, 1941, at 5 p.m. sharp.

This meeting is called for the purpose of protesting against the shooting and killing of two Africans in Sophiatown, whilst another African was seriously wounded. All this was done by a European constable.
During the usual nerve-wracking police raids in the locations an African woman was arrested for beer and savagely assaulted by the police. The African woman thus attacked is in the family way.

Africans rally to this meeting in your thousands and raise your protest against this cold blooded shooting of innocent people and put a stop to it!

Convened by the organisers of the T.A.C.

E. T. MOFUTSANYANA and S.M. MOEMA.

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