4 This Picture of African women who locked themselves in

it Way car marked “For Europeans Only” attracted con-
of “rable attention when it was published on the front page

ae Pacific Tribune last week.
HY adopted by passive resisters to defy the Malan govern-

My i
“nt's racist laws.

The method is only one of

South
Africans
dety
Malan —

' Dismond BucKLE Malan - August 22

Te Campaign of defiance of

Unjust laws, which began in

8p
Mth Africa two months ago,

Ming strength every day.
is attracting ever-wider
of the non-European
nN to its cause.

© volunteers who [have
tt th forward to go into action
Com, cal of the National Action
tiong Ittee of the African Na-
Atyy Congress and the South
“an Indian Congress include
lousy. People’ wha have not prey-
Of th. taken part in the affairs

© two organizations.
tng nODs them are working men
Slong Omen, well-known profes-
teach’ Men, lawyers, doctors,
tua.’ 2nd clergymen, traders,
y ts and members of cultur-

ton uth and other organiza-

The : ;
Malang mPaign of resistance to

ee discriminatory and un-
a, “Ws has called into being
teq®®. movement which al-
inte” Shows signs of developing
hh 4, © biggest mass movement

Nion’s stormy history.
tay , PYogress of the campaign
Ding fen marked by the disci-
Meta) those taking part in the
den acts of defiance and the
Nee” Manner in which mass
try het up and down the coun-

Ye been conducted.

but aute set themselves limited
fg *tinite objectives, the lead-
‘taint S0ing about the job of
eg “DS them in a well-organ-
fy in atner, calm and compos-
Thea the face of the wild
Men S of the Malan govern-
the And of the provocations of

,

my? do not expect victory

the y & Week or a month,” said
banner Of the ‘Cape Province
Con Of the African National
hg fess On the eve of the open-
: ® campaign.
ie (° Will in the first instance
“tteg Y small numbers of vol-
Meng, S, but the numbers will
Nomen as the campaign gains
Miia ttm, unt{l finally it be-

MW coe Mass action, when victory
a tain.» ;

AN

bi’ “ampaign has been fol-
Precisely this course.
t 150 volunteers went
°n in all the main cen-
Putt; © Union.

wetuye® into operation the
tion,” Prepared plans of the

RQ ps
lit, os
th, SCti

’s 0

tines? Action Committee they

tee, Place a specific law con-

Ost by” the inhabitants the

inane €nsome of the unjust
8s and regulations.

‘HE pro-Malan press in South

Africa yesterday demanded that

Africans and Indians resisting the racial laws should be sent
to forced labor in road-building camps.

This demand, apparently inspired by the government, has
come on the eve of the appearance before the Magistrates’ Court
in Johannesburg of 15 of the Indian and African leaders of the
campaign, including the leader of the South African Indian Con-

gress, Dr. Dadoo, and the leader
Dr. Moroka. : :

of the African National Congress,

The people - August 26

FRICAN and Indian leaders appealed to a vast crowd of their
supporters for quiet here today so that court proceedings could

be ‘started against them,
When the magistrate took

the bench about 2,000 spectators

Y ide,
ot get into the court, crowded the passages outside,
ear ae eal eas of “Africa” and the African National Congress.

sign of thumbs up. |

y At Boksburg, in the Trans-
vaal, African and Indian volun-
teers led by Nana Sita, veteran
of the 1946 Indian passive re-
sistance struggle, entered the
African location without passes.

VV In Johannesburg, African
volunteers defied .the curfew
regulations which require that
al] Africans, unless carrying ex-
emption passes, must be off the
streets by 9 p.m.

Vy In Port Elizabeth and
Worcester in the ‘Cape Prov-
ince, non-European volunteers
broke railway apartheid regula-

tions and lined up in the queues
reserved exclusively for Burop-
eans at the post offices.

All the first 150 volunteers.
were arrested. But while they
were being tried even more
volunteers -were going into
action and mass meetings were
being held all over the country.

In Capetown, for instance,
Africans, Indians and Coloreds
signed on as volunteers at the
‘end of a mass meeting called by
the coordinating committee of
the African National Congress,
the Franchise Action Council,

PREMIER MALAN

singing as they signed their
names the African anthem of
liberation, ‘“‘Mayebuye i’? Af-
rika.”’

During the first fortnight of
the campaign 407 people were

-arrested. After two,months the

total is now over 3.000.

In most cases the volunteers
take overcoats and mufflers
with them when going into
‘action, for they expect t6 end
up in a cold cell at police head-
quarters,

When brought up before the
magistrates the vast majority

Under the pretext of fighting communism, the Malan government is attacking the trade unions,

Here Solly Sachs, leader of the militant Garment Workers Union,

viction is still before the courts,

is shown address ing his union members from the steps of Johannes- -

whose appeal against his con-

burg City Hall, Sachs refused to resign his union position when ordered to do so by the Malan gov-

ernment,

have preferred jail to paying
fines—or even to a remand on
bail.

The jails are full and crimi.
nals are being released to make
way for the resisters of racial-
ism,

The new jail at Port Eliza-
beth built to accommodate 616
prisoners, was almost full at
the end of the second week of
the campaign because it had to
find room for 115 jailed volun-
teers, in addition ‘to its more
normal inhabitants.

The spirit of defiance is in
evidence not only at the time of
the breaking of a particular un-
just law, but also when the vol-
unteers appear in court,

Typical of their boldness was
that shown by a 17-year-old Af-
rican girl, Karabo Sello, who
told the Port Elizabeth magis-
trate that if she was discharg-
ed she would defy the laws
again and again.

e

The campaign of resistance
has so alarmed the government
that it has placed the Union De.
fense Force on the alert for in-
ternal emergency.

European members of the
force have been put on special
duty at stores and airfields.

European guards have re-
Placed Africans at some sites.

Special training courses have
been cancelled to release more
men for this possible emergency,

The Malan clique has been
thrown into a panic because the
victim is not taking their blows
lying down as expected but is,
on the contrary, fighting back.

Even so early in its course
the campaign of resistance to
unjust laws must be adjudged
an outstanding success.

It has not only demonstrated
the power of the non-Europeam
population but has fully expos-
ed the fallacy of the wait-and-.

see policy of the Torch Com-.

mando,

This millionaire-backed org-
anization of whites, while claim-

ing to be the guardian of de-
mocracy in South Africa shares
the Nationalists’ racial views:
‘and supports, at least in prin-
ciple, many of the unjust laws:
which are the very denial of
democracy, :

The non-Europeans have giv-
en a lead to all South Africans
of whatever race or color who
profess to hate fascism, They
are proving that temporising
and pinning hopes on a Nation-
alist defeat in the élections next
year is not the way to meet the
fascist threat to the liberties of
all South Africans.

e j

This is an anti-fascist strug-
gle, which should be waged by
a truly united democratic front
of the South ‘African people,

This united front, says Moses
Kotane, the African leader,
“should not be envisaged as a
formal coalition or electoral alli-
ance. but as a common front
arising out of the practical, ef-
fective campaigns and strug-
gles, whether conducted separ-
ately or in combination of all
the diverse elements opposed to
the government.”

The United party, the Labor
party and the other European
organizations may or may not.
respond to wisdom. But it is
clear that the campaign of re-
sistance to unjust laws will con-
tinue vigorously to become a
major factor in. the ultimate de-
feat of the Malanazi govern-
ment of fascist lawlessness and
violence.

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