Towards 1930, the African
National Congress (ANC) was faced with internal leadership crisis
but their agreement with the Communist
Party of South Africa (CPSA) kept things going. Realising that United
Blacks posed a threat to White minority rule in South Africa, Hertzog
used the “Swart Gevaar” (Black danger) speech as a tool
of getting Whites to vote for him in the 1929 election. Having regrouped
the ANC, together SAIC and CPSA, challenged all the segregation bills
Hertzog’s government implemented. However, the ANC was still having
problems with leaders who were thought to be sell-outs to the liberation
cause by members. Individuals, such as Professor Davidson
Don Tengo Jabavu, who was seen in many corridors of the liberation
organisation as a puppet of the South African government in the 1930s,
would secretly agree to various Bills being enacted to laws, only to
render a different opinion to his organisation. The Native Representative
Act is one of those that Jabavu gave his full approval without having
consulted his organisation first. This act, though a mouthpiece of Africans
in government, gave the government the right to choose who it wanted
as Black representatives ... 
