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""" " 1 1T7ie news of the impending departure frdra South

Africa of Father Trevor Huddleston has been received with diajnay hy most of the people of South Africa including all the African, Indian and Coloured peoples ‘ and those white people who support the Charter of Human •' Rights’ of the United Nations Organisation,

^lDon6 us ara men and women of every.colour and belief, To some of us Father -Huddleston is a man of .Cod> to others-he is a father, a brother, guide and counsellor, but to all of us he is a champion of the oppressed, a fighter for truth and Justice.

V•*jfcv4.1 ,v t * "V ~ .To him the brotherhood of man is not something . .• to be iiouthed on Sundays but something which is part of * ‘ our daily lives. So he it clear that ha hatesAparthfeld and racial oppression ac abominations, as an affront to the essential dignity of man, irrespective of race, ^olour or creed.

*— - - - -He believes ■ that the purpose of apartheid is to ensure ti.e permanence of v/hite Supremacy - which not even blou^ tears and sv.ê t can. secure. He says that he is haunted by the question r,As it too late to bridge the gap between whites ana nort-whites in South Africa.” ' * '

^ . • We believe thnt apart from the Congress Movement Father HUcdl«ct on is one of the very few who have Piade .. prodi; ; q *\ brifige this gap.

jj|£ intend i;o«appeal Jto .the leaders of the AnglicanCtfeurah and of the Coti unity of the Resurrection for Trevor Huddleston fce regained in the service of the people of our country.

. ,^S7IC:"a.& AKS^ERu. v ? , ***c i.ongrosi.es ofiuthe N-1ico'-list :-d zheUni tea parties wtiinh set jka lia c m simultaneously In -r.Cape^Xolok-t month-, «ere 'r.ig/iilgiiteii by a series ofnewspaper exc ;:.nges betweeniv*‘* / a I /•« ^

araUWRHS FOR THE *HAKTER

W 3 ■;'Ono« I net an Insurance Agent at

a bus stop. Tactfully he intro&jced the subject nearest and dfarcat to hla heart. He wanted me to plaoe "my future security" in hla hands!

My, what a talker! He a poke and •pole and spoke until there wasn't an In- stxranoc policy that existed that I didn't know of. I f I had had the money to bî y tbs things he wanted to sell me I would

here bought then there and then!

Insurance was his bread ^nd tutter. ffijf yi/te depended upon it . That la eh.Y he

m s SO ruxslflt..-nt/

Now, we hove the feeling that COD ■tubers haw not became fully "Charter oodsdIo u s .* If only our menbe ra would be *s tenacious aa this Insuranoe pedlar!

There is not a phrase in the Fi-ee- doo> Charter which is not interwoven with tbs tilings wo consider to be moat dear to US. Hb uno*5>TTi3isingly believt' in their and will not rest until they have been •man, flfry ]̂ we«̂ oro Chsrter ia hit hrea^ and

butter and the livea of tb- majority of South Africans (ourselves included) do

jjoo' they have planned an anfcitious function in conjuration with N rtty.r Zkranoh liilch should raise o substantial amount of money,

Ihe members of the branch also assist with oollootir^ n»terJ-*T for the Cultural Clubs and arranged a Jumble sale at which they expect to outerip their prewious totals.

Not excelling in area work, they have oonhined f jrses with Hillbrow and Northerns to oolleot signatures for tb.* Fi. t«ijm Chea t- ,

TOlTl'fl BHAfCHi The aenbers of this branch ftre buay with th« ij 8 ® w i? M r w iio h it is hopod that they will oontinuc ^jrki/ig r~ their usual enthusiasm.

BgfcBVUB StftlCTH: Norn ally a most active ftronoh, Brll-* rue t»s b* *, >surprisingly little bo report lately. A .XJf. and tb* "JJT

the two most {xnainent features of this bre.noh's work.

A day that will live ?or ever in the.

Minds of nearly two thouoand wcnen who wade M.eir way to Pretoria, despite almost unsurnountable difficulties! A day that

•111 live in the minds of hundreds of thou

sands of other women who could not go to Vtotoxia, but for whom those courageous

determined worien spoke.

TLEY SFOXE AS iXjHEH

On that Tii^ride;-, S.Africc uitnsssed

s sigh* that was unforgettable. For the first time in the history of the Union, the non-E-royCiin people went to the heart of the Governr-t-nt, to the inner citadel of apartheid end white supremacy and came together there and sat in the amphitheatre.

brilliant sinshine after three days ofcloud. Caxs were stopped on the road, theAlexandra bus delayed two hours, railwaytickets refused at oany stations - hundreds

and hundreds of women had to be ferried In a few taxis and jrirate car a fro« the station to the Union Buildings; «*ny waited the whole distance.

AND ALMOST TWO THOUSAND WOMBJ CAMS ID THE UKION BTTIIDLNCS: MOT ON THHR KNSH5 TO BEG OR TO PLEAD, BUT WITH HEADS HELD HICK, 1HJELR ffiOTEST IN rHEIR HANDS.

Silently, steadily, they came, till the

whole amphitheatre was filled. , The leaders, Lilian Ngoyi, gallant Rahiaa Mooac, Sophie Williams, Helen Joeoph, took 1600 protests and delivered them to the offices of the K eisters . Y/hen they rtturned, the women

r^ t> and sang NKuSI SXKEL2LE AFRIKA as it has r.ever been sung before. The volume of triumphant sound gruw.evcr. louder until it

Tllo Tranafnii] Cr Itf11 w 1 LI f together V»VbliKi-Serv 1 ccimwi * r n nzauXh. At the

Cokoteph, Johanri,osbrt>L. -en S ~ f4i. November, th*. Sunday before Ar,.'j.Btlce Da;-. , *

The Peace*Council’ s wreath will be made of blu% and white flowers and ribbons, with a scroll on *; which is inscribed - ' 3 •

t "THE? WREATH HAS BEEN LAID OK BE-W1.? OF MBMH6 WOEW OF JLL RACES WHO LOVE PEACE, FREEDOM AND

’ HULAN KINDNESS.-

"IT HAS BEE! LAID d liONOUK OF THE MEM, V?0iSN AND CHILDREN VHO DUD AS A RESULT OF THE TTO WCSLC

W/-ES AND IN HONOUR OF ALL INNOCENT KUItAN FCINCS ‘WH3 HAVE DIED BY THE HAND OF 'CPU.

"WITH ALL OUR HONOUR AND DEVOTION r.f TttE CAUSE OF FEi-.CE fE PLEDGE O'JR INF?GIES AND STiJCLRITY TO

STSUCC’LE CEASELESTLY TO ENSURE fclAT THERE 3iALL BE NO MORE VAR."______________________________

In M M

«ORLD YXTH DAY.THE TOKEN OF THE-BuJSVAAL «ent to present, soared jpwards, past the Union Buildings,

not a plea or a petition, but to demand filling the skies.that vicious racial cu.d fosciet legislation As silently, as steadily as they had Should be aholishod. come, as silently as they had waitod, the

■ 1Vo Months of intensive preparations wonen went. Fro,- the bott*:.>i of tiie hill it earn to a head in the last f«?w doys, only aeoaed as though a great tide of h'inanity io receive blow after blow from the autjior- celled up, had overflowed, 93 tha stream itiesl Vwir.ocxd i-fttsed to see the v.jnen, of worien poured down the hill, through the

gardens, separating, flowing togetner again, vs. Young Crock.3" footbal free- for- No. b Su£, Ter .'in us at AIl i . from 8.30 a.zu

r;r; are m in t : (o

\ « » y tiftc choosing

•Life do forcing all South Afrioans *}>• ’ecisive uiioioeJand those who

■ r*x to the old policies and refuse to f ‘.h» choice oar >\d nothing to bring

/•.it, % "new epoch", nothing to preserve t. . eenooratic liberties and traditions."

Thi3 is th- cfiallengo put out by

S .A .Congress of DerancratB in it3 new

. v> «ynlet "IK *hl Vj»NT.’

"We are a.alnat all forma of

Inequality x.-1 r ».•■■.■ ’iscrimination and rt-yu^iate ao false try trine a of rf.oi^f inequa].*;/. ->f wnitc supremacy^ a ^ trtheid end trusteeship and segregation.

adrooate the principles of equality

ari the brotherhoV. of nan."

Constitution— 3 .A .Congress of IXrmucrats.

Hie par^ihlet provides a searohing

analysis of th*; policies of the United and Nationalist Parties and contrasts these with the democratic prograame of the Oongress

of Dtmoorata.

"Itiere are nnny" says the pamphlet,'tjrtio believe with Dr Friedman that his own cfvolt against what he oalls Ttr Strauss’ retreat from prinoiple. . . " marks the turning paint. Tlvre are others wno see the beginning of & new epoch of democracy in S.A . by t?v deterrd.n

A\ r̂i j?O-^'S I s *

Was the campaign worth while? This question is being asked b; many people who took part in it. It can perhaps best be answered if the campaign is considered in two parts — firstly the campaign up to the passing of the Resettlement Act, and secondly the campaign thereafter.

What was the aim of the first campaign? Obviously its aim was to prevent the whole removal scheme. And equally obviously, in this the campaign failed. Does it then follow that the campaign was not worthwhile. ^It does not. The campaign was highly valuable, both to the people in the Western Areas, and to the whole democratic cause. In the first place, it forced the Government to abandon its "site and service" plan, and_to build houses at Meadowlands, together with a school and some amenities. Without the campaign, none of this would have been done. Secondly, the campaign drew dozens of new, democratically minded people into political activity against the government for the first time, and awakened the democratic opposition of thousands more. Thirdly, the campaign focussed world attention on the South African government, exposing the hollowness of its claim that apartheid is not open, terroristic racialism.

^It is therefore clear that the campaign, even though it failed to attain its oh^octive, was well worthwhile. It did not halt or reverse the polic/ of the Government. But it did force the Government to give way on sorr.e, perhaps not vital, matters. What it did achieve was that it moved the vihole people’s opposition closer to the day when government policy—can. be fully reversed by the total defeat of the Government.

\,That was the aim of the second phase of the campaign? It was to encourage the people of the Western Areas themselves to resist forcible removal. Clearly, suoh resistance requires greater understanding, greater courage and greater solidarity than the simple opposition of the first phase, "an it be said that in this the campaign failed? Clearly it cannot, until the removals have been completed withouj; resistance by the people. At present, removals have only started? but it is still a long way from the end. The state of seige, deemed necessary by the Government to- effect the first removals, testifies to.the government's awareness that there was, and continues to be, a strong spirit"of resistance to forcible deportation, which can still express itself in acts of resistance. *.

Why,^th*m the feeling of despondency- about the whole campaign? Firstly, there is tie misconception in many minds that a single act of resistance in the Western Areas could, by itself, halt the removal scheme,- and prevent its fulfilment. This would imply that a single act of resist-, ance in a local area -joû d, by itself, master all the power and authority oi the Government. ̂ Tr.is is clearly not the case. The Government can only be halted In its course by a most strenuous, sustained and drawn out struggle on a wide scale. Such a struggle could, perhaps, be set in motion by a single act .f resistance, but cannot be substituted for by such a single act.

Secondly, there was the error of pinning faith on a single act -- a strike jail - as the neans of defeating Government policy. There can be no sing la isolated act, -which of Itself, will defeat the Government.Such a stride as the one proposed for the Western Areas, is, at best, only a par~? a small part, cf a long, complicated and many sided struggle.It is appropriate, not on an/ day selected by the government, but when people have been Prepared for such action through active political campaigning, through smaller =̂ nd less dramatic, less open challenges to the Government, Regarded as a single, magic, 'Open Sesame' , rather than as a^link m the whole chain of a struggle, strike calls can serve only to distract from reality and tc draw a red-herring across the course of the people's movement. Errors there have been* But what political campaign goes forward with error. Serious political workers must not turn to despondency and defeatism because'of their own inexperience, but must learn from yesterday's mistakes how to go-forward victoriously today.

/“'o/=z/i.^r/o//.. -eeci/5 ^ - r - /& A / :The fervour end cnorgctic manner in which Hill- brow Branch ltd this campaign has reaped itsr result*. The public, vho had been misled into believing that it was compulsory to register immediately, are being informed of the true position. Their dislike. of the scheme is being crystallised into definite opposition. Hillbrow's lord was fol_owed by more tables being organised in the centre of Johannesburg, rnd now in the ..Cape* as well the. -Cape-Western "SJich of the C.O.D. is planning a leaflet and

petition campaign,cro/t'csCfss t-.'-szez ' / ‘Bore too. HillbrOw have woriced hard in endeavors to have ten house meetings. lot'all. were successful, but the preparatory work of contacting .people in their homes, talking to them,, and collecting money has been very valuable.

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RECORDS RELATING TO THE 'TREASON TRIAL' (REGINA vs F. ADAMS AND OTHERS ON CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON, ETC.), 1956 1961 TREASON TRIAL, 1956 1961

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