Documents - 1940s
DOCUMENTS | SPEECHES | ARTICLES | LETTERS | REPORT
Documents:
Africans' Claims in South Africa, Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of Rights," Adopted by the ANC Annual Conference
Constitution of the ANC
Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
"Presidential Address" by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Resolutions of the ANC Annual Conference, December 20-22, 1942
Statement on the Durban Riots, by the Working Committee of the ANC, signed by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 20, 1949
"Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders" [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949 Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
Statement at Press Conference held at India League, London, October 26, 1948
Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
Harry Snitcher, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Odd fellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
Anti-CAD Committee, Bulletin Number One [1943]
Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conf erence, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
The Ten-Point Programme [1943]
The failure of the Natives' Representative Council, 1946-1947
Tabata, The Rehabilitation Scheme: A new Fraud, December 1945
"Views on Boycott: Majority Support at Emergency Conference", The Guardian, 12 June 1947
Moses M. Kotane, "Boycott of Elections under the 'Representation of Native Act'", Freedom, 6, 5. September-October 1947
Resolutions passed at 6th National Unity Conference, Cape Town, 29, 30 and 31 March 1948
Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] "The T.A.R.C.", Majority Rule: Some Notes. Chapter XIX
"Short History of Betrayal", Freedom, New Series, 1, 5, 1 November 1948
Review of this meeting, in Minutes of the Annual Conference of the AAC, December 1949
Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National Congress, 17 April 1949
"Three Doctors' Pact"
Statement in court by Dr. G. M. Naicker and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo, when charged with aiding and abetting under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913
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Articles
"New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma's Address to African Congress", The Guardian, 18 December 1947
“N.R.C. Boycott Campaign to be intensified", The Guardian, 18 December 1947
Ruth First, "Progress in Unity Talks: African Organisations Agree Principle", The Guardian, 23 December 1948
“Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision", The Guardian, 8 January 1948
Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], "A History of the Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers' Voice, 5, 5, September 1946
Peter Meissenheimer, "Smuts' Anti-Indian Bill: Economic Sanctions or Non-European Unity?" Workers' Voice 18, April 1946
"To All Africans and Friends of Justice." Flyer issued by Dr. A.B. Xuma, March 21, 1947
"Trumpet Call to Youth" [announcing meeting of September 10, 1944]. Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League
"Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism." Article by A. M. Lembede, in Inyaniso, February 1945
"Policy of the Congress Youth League." Article by A. M. Lembede, in Inkundia ya Bantu, May 1946
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Speeches
A. Mon [M. N. Averbach], "A Comment on Trotsky's Letter to S.A.", Worker's Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation", Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
SPEECH ON ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS, OCTOBER 21, 1945
Address by M.R. Sobukwe on behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College Delivered at the "Completers' Social"
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LETTERS
Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives' Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, November 11, 1942
Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations', 17 August 1944 Young Communist League of South Africa
Letter from J. D. Rheinallt Jones to Ruth First, 31 August 1944
Letter from the Chairman of the Planning Committee, Libode, to the Chief Magistrate, Umtata, 8 February 1947
Letter from I. B. Tabata to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 13 August 1949
Let Me Live: Letter to a European
Circular Letter to Organisations Concerning the Arrest of Mr. J. N. Singh ovember 9, 1946
Letter from Yusuf Dadoo to Prof. D.D.T. Jabavu, July 4, 1940
Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Youth Council, March 16, 1945
Letter reporting on this meeting, from Moses Kotane to Professor Z. K. Matthews, May 8, 1949
REPORTS
Report of the proceedings of the Second National Anti-CAD Conference held at Banqueting Hall, City Hall, Cape Town, 4-5 January 1944 TUESDAY 4th JANUARY 1944 Morning Session. 10a.m.
Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944 Members of the Conference.
Report of a Deputation from the ANC to the Deputy Prime Minister and Others on March 4, 1942, by Dr. A.B. Xuma [n.d.]
