Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC

At the annual congress of the Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee held in Johannesburg, it was decided to revive the old Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and to establish a united democratic front to mobilize resistance on a national scale to participation by Indians and Coloureds in the new Constitution. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South African constitution to create a new structure of Parliament. The new Tricameral Parliament would consist of three Parliamentary chambers: The House of Assembly (White representatives), The House of Representatives (Coloured representatives) and The House of Delegates (Indian representatives).  In his closing speech at the conference, Dr. Allan Boesak, who was at the time the president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, said; “We cannot accept a ‘new deal’ which makes apartheid work even better. We cannot accept a future for our people when we had no say in it. And we cannot accept a ‘solution’ which says yes to homelands, the Group Areas Act, to laws which make us believe that we are separate and unequal.”