SAY IT OUT LOUD -
The AP0 Presidential Addresses and other Major Political Speeches 1906 - 1940
of
DR ABDULLAH ABDURAHMAN
COLLECTED, EDITED AND WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION
by
R.E. VAN DER ROSS
The Western Cape Institute for Historical Research (IHR)
University of the Western Cape,
Bellville, 1990
PART I: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION
The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
PART II: OTHER MAJOR ADDRESSES
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North. (1901)
The Education Bill. (1906)
The Coloured People and the Franchise. (1906)
Letter to the Coloured People of South Africa. (1910)
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps. (1919)
Protest against the Women's Enfranchisement Act. (1931)
CLASSIFIED LIST OF MAJOR TOPICS OCCURRING IN DR ABDURAHMAN'S MAIN A.P.O. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES
Franchise (20)
Coloured People in liberal Cape have not abused privileges (1) 1907
Lack of political rights in Northern territories (3) 1906; 1907; 1923.
British broke pledges after Boer War (1) 1907
Mr. Porter's defence of full franchise to non-whites (2) 1909; 1939
Coloured people helped in promoting idea of Responsible Government (1) 1909
Introduction of Colour Bar into Act of Union attacked (5) 1909; 1921; 1923; 1935; 1939
Political rights essential to progress (3) 1921; 1923; 1939
Coloured Persons' Rights Bill examined and attacked (1) 1929
Disfranchisement of Africans opposed (1) 1929
Threats of further tampering with franchise discussed (1) 1929
Coloured people suspicious of Federation (1) 1907
Labour (13)
Mine magnates attacked (2) 1906; 1921
Africans being exploited (1) 1912
White Labour Party and Trade Unions attached (4) 1912; 1919; 1929; 1935
Withdrawal of labour considered as weapon (2) 1913; 1939
Civilised Labour Policy attacked (3) 1929; 1935; 1939
Importation of Chinese labour attacked (1) 1906
Education (11)
Need for men trained for leadership (1) 1907
Need for State system (1) 1907
Need for compulsory education (2) 1907; 1935
School segregation deplored (2) 1912; 1929
Discrimination in expenditure deplored (4) 1921; 1923; 1929; 1935
Education Act motivated by fear of Coloured people (1) 1906
Transvaal and O.F.S. (10)
Ill-treatment described (6) 1906; 1907; 1913; 1919; 1921; 1935
Disloyal to British Empire (1)
Betrayal of Coloured people by Uitlanders (1)
Northern illiberalism spreading to South (2) 1906; 1907
Relations with Whites (9)
Worsening (6) 1912; 1913;1919;1921;1923;1939 Call for peaceful co-operation of races (1) 1921 Afrikaans language deplored (1) 1912 White man's hypocrisy (1) 1923
Relations with non-whites (7)
Africans will develop along own lines (1) 1910 Abdurahman speaks only for Coloured people (1) 1910
Number in brackets indicates frequency of occurrence
Date refers to year of Presidential address
Call for non-white unity and organisation (3) 1912; 1913; 1919 World sympathy with South Africa's non-whites claimed (1) 1919 Indians' Passive Resistance admired (1) 1913
Segregation and racialism (6)
Attacked in principle (1) 1939
Classification of Coloured people unacceptable (2) 1939
Inclusive use of term "Coloured" (1) 1909
Responsible for Boer War (1) 1909
Treatment of Coloured people in British Empire as a whole deplored (1) 1906
Character (5)
Coloured people exhorted to honesty, diligence, etc., and to educate their children (5) 1906; 1910; 1913; 1919; 1935
Economic advancement (4)
Essential to progress (2) 1929; 1939
Need for Coloured people to get land for farming (1) 1939
Rise of Coloured people in industry inevitable (1) 1921
Loyalty of Coloured people (4)
In war (1) 1919
Esau of Calvinia cited (2) 1907; 1910
Unrewarded (1) 1906
Social indignities suffered (4)
In Post Office, Law Courts, on railways, etc., (4) 1919; 1921; 1923; 1939
The Future (3)
Optimism for redress of grievances (3) 1919; 1921; 1939
British Liberty (2)
Being traversed (2) 1910; 1913
Churches
Mission Land Settlement being abused (1) 1907
Liquor (2)
"The curse of drink" (2) 1910; 1913
Cape Coloured Commission (1)
Work described (1) 1939
Foreign ideologies (1)
Call to reject these (1) 1939
Sport (1)
Its seductive influence (1) 1910
