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QUOTATIONS - 1952 DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN
“1952 was the year of the Defiance Campaign. At meetings held in April in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, it was decided that groups of volunteers would defy apartheid, and that this action should spread throughout the country. When arrested, the volunteers would serve sentences rather than pay fines. This action was, as the Congress emphasised, based on disciplined non-violence. At a press conference on April 17th, Dr Yusuf Dadoo, President of the South African Indian Congress, was asked: 'Do you think there will be any incidents?' He replied: 'Not from our side. Ours will be a controlled, disciplined movement”.
Source: http://www.liberation.org.za/themes/campaigns/cop/freedomday.php
Pledge by the volunteers of the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign, 1952
“I, the undersigned, Volunteer of the National Volunteer Corps, do hereby solemnly pledge and bind myself to serve my country and my people in accordance with the directives of the National Volunteer Corps and to participate fully and without reservations to the best of my ability in the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws. I shall obey the orders of my leaders under whom I shall be placed and strictly abide by the rules and regulations of the National Volunteer Corps framed from time to time. It shall be my duty to keep myself physically, mentally and morally fit”.
