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Part three: New gropings for effective organization and representation, 1921-1934

 

Introduction | Preface

Documents

Africans "Respectfully Submit"

                                                        
39a - 39d. The Governor-General's Native Conferences

39a. Proceedings and Resolutions of the Governor-General's Native Conference, 1923 {Extracts}

39b. Proceedings and Resolutions of the Governor-General's Native Conference, 1924 [Extracts]

39c. Proceedings and Resolutions of the Governor-General's Native Conference, 1925 [Extracts}

39d. Proceedings and Resolutions of the Governor-General's Native Conference, 1926 [Extracts}

40a - 40b. Minutes of Evidence, Select Committee on Subject of Native Bills, May, 1927

40a. Testimony of Charles Sakwe, Elijah Qamata, and William Mlandu of the Transkeian Native General Council, before the Select Com­mittee on Subject of Native Bills, May 6, 1927 [Extracts}

40b. Testimony of Professor D. D. T. Jabavu, Walter Rubusana, and the Rev. Abner Mtimkulu of the Cape Native Voters' Convention and Meshach Pelem of the Bantu Union, before the Select Committee on Subject of Native Bills, May 30, 1927 [Extracts}

Africans and Whites in Dialogue

41a - 41d. Views of Africans

41a. "The Race Problem." Article in The Guardian by R. V. Selope Thema, September, 1922

41b. "Christianity, Basis of Native Policy?" Article in The Workers' Herald by James S. Thaele, December 21, 1923

41c. "The Native Problem." Article in The Cape Times by the Rev. Abner Mtimkulu, May 30, 1924

41d. "Bridging the Gap Between White and Black in South Africa." Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extracts}

42a - 42b. Dutch Reformed Church Conferences

42a. Proceedings and Resolutions of the Dutch Reformed Church Conference, September, 1923 {Extracts}

42b. Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Dutch Reformed Church Conference, February 3, 1927 {Extracts}

43a-43b. National European-Bantu Conferences

43a. Proceedings and Resolutions of the National European-Bantu Con­ference, February, 1929 {Extracts}

43b. Proceedings and Resolutions of the National European-Bantu Conference, July, 1933 {Extracts}

Non-Europeans Meet Together

44.  Proceedings and Resolutions of the Non-European Conference, June, 1927 {Extracts}

45.  Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Non-European Conference, in The Cape Times, January 4 and 6, 1930 {Extracts}

46.  Proceedings and Resolutions of the Non-European Conference, January, 1931 {Extracts}

47.  "Native Disabilities in South Africa." Pamphlet by Professor D. D. T. Jabavu, July, 1932 

Africans Acting Alone

48a - 48m. The African National Congress Strives for Unity

48a. "The Exclusion of the Bantu." Address by the Rev. Z. R. Mahabane, President, Cape Province National Congress, 1921

48b. Resolutions of the Annual Conference of the African National Congress, May 28-29, 1923

48c. Resolutions of the Annual Conference of the African National Congress, May 31, 1924

48d. Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Annual Conference of the African National Congress, January 4-5, 1926 {Extracts}

48e. Resolutions of the Convention of Bantu Chiefs, Held under the auspices of the African National Congress, April 15, 1927

48f. "To All Leaders of the African People." Statement by J. T. Gumede, President, ANC, September 7, 1927

48g. "What Do the People Say?" Editorial in Abantu-Batho, January 26, 1928

48h. Report of T. D. Mweli Skota, Secretary-General of the African Na­tional Congress, January, 1930 {?]

48i. Report on the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the African National Congress, in Umteteli wa Bantu, May 3, 1930

48j. "ANC Calls for Passive Resistance." Statement in Umteteli wa Bantu, June 27, 1931

48k. Report on the proceedings of the Special Emergency Convention of the African National Congress in Umteteli wa Bantu, June 23, 1932

48l. "The African National Congress — Is It Dead?" Pamphlet by Pixley wa Isaka Seme, 1932 {Extract}

48m. "I Appeal to the African Nation." Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in Umteteli wa Bantu, November 10, 1934

49a - 49c. The Voice of Labor

49a-l - 49a-3. Predecessors of the I.C.U.

49a-l. Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921

49a-2. Memorandum from the Transvaal Native Mine Clerks' Association to the Mining Industry Board, 1922

49a-3 Petition to the Prince of Wales, from the Transvaal Native Mine Clerks' Association, June 23, 1925

49b-l - 49b-6. Kadalie's I.C.U.

49b-l. "African Labour Congress." Article by Clements Kadalie, Na­tional Secretary, I.C.U., in The Workers' Herald, Decembar 21,1923 

49b-2. Revised Constitution of the I.C.U., 1925 [Extracts]

49b-3. Resolutions of demonstration against the Prime Minister's Native Bills, 1926

49b-4. Letter to the Prime Minister, from A. W. G. Champion, Acting National Secretary, I.C.U., May 23, 1927 (Extracts)

49b-5. "Open Letter to Blackpool." Article by Clements Kadalie, in The New Leader, September 30, 1927

49b-6. "Economic  and Political Program  for  1928."  Statement by Clemente Kadalie, 1928

49c-l -49c-2. Successors of the I.C.U.: I.C.U. Yase Natal

49c-l. Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal,  1929 [Extracts}

49c-2. "Blood and Tears." Pamphlet by A. W. G. Champion, 1929 [Extracts}

50a - 50b. Cape Voters

50a. Petition to the South African Parliament, from the Cape Native

Voters' Convention, January 3, 1928

50b. Report on the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cape Native Voters' Convention, in Imvo Zabantsundu, January 8, 1929

51a-51c. Urban Africans Organize

51a. "Urban Native Legislation." Address by R. H. Godlo, President, Location Advisory Boards' Congress of South Africa, December 19, 1929

51b. "Urban Native Legislation." Memorandum to the Minister for Native Affairs from the Location Advisory Boards' Congress of South Africa, September 8, 1930

51c. "Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls." Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]  

 

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