■A- 0f AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (CAFE)

TO A'.: CAPE A.N.C. BRANCHES. OFFICERS AND

The great ind inspiring Conference of the African National Congress in Durban has passed bn 1 the grave resolutions remain to be carried out. Tho Conferencewas a d e a r dononstr-.i-ion to all that nothing can detar the people in their march to freodonj all the \t?rk of Conference can be sunrarised as follows:

(1) The s v ,;lo and the campaign to be waged against tho notorious Bantu Education Act.

(2) Tho f Lt tc preserve tho peoplo's homos in the Western Areas of Johanrv.-osburg,

(3) Tho »:r that have to be undertaken to ^xpand, consolidate the African National Corn-resa a:t' t pntoct it from any attack,

(4.) ':h' — -i^.tion of the nighty CONGRESS OF'THE TEOFLE and tho drawing up of the PEOPLE'S fhL. :KARTER not later than Jvao 26th 1955.

(5) Widoi: - t.ho social basis of tha Q^NGRISS MOVEMENT through a serious and doterminud effort t c .niso tho poople in the RESERVES and in the European Faming areas firmly uithir - NATIONAL MDVBIENT.

(6) Stron/r:nning the TRADE UNION MOVEMENT and undertaking more vigorously tasks to secure a nlr.inyn wage of ONE POUND A CAY FOR ALL WORKERS and a goneral improvement of w o r l d r e n d i t i o n s .

(7) Socurijw +.he release of JCMO KiJMYATTA and othor loaders, for an end to the anti-African wo: m Aonya.

(&) To fi,’;it [nperialisn in the world generally and in Africa in particular,

IN ALL BTCJCKES THEREFORE THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR ATTHOTON FOCUS SICON TOE ABCVE POINTS: THESE ARE qgR TASKS FOR THIS YEAR.Wo have got to fight hard to suceed in these tasks and also oomplete those

tasks we *ero unable to do properly last year. The nost Important of these is the BOYCOTT OF ALL CIGARETTir AND TOBACCOS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE UNITS) TOBAOCO COMPANY.

In order to carry out these tasks offectively branches most:(a) Imodiitely call properly constituted gonoral members1 nsetings and

hold annual elections. This is necessary to enable the people to sloot parsons in when they have confidence n.id also to enable Executives to establish contact with the masses in preparation for the hird tasks ahead. Reports of those general meetings and the nana# and addresses of the qfficials elected thoroin nuct bo in tho hands of the provincial office no later than >I£PUARY 28TH 1955.

(b) Branches must carry out all instructions recoived from headquarter# without fail; if instr'ictiona are not understood inquirios must bo made to tho provino- ial Hoadquarters,

(c) Rog-^Lii mootings must bo callod. Where these cro impossible* use should bo mado of tho printed word in the form of leaflets. House to house mootings must be organisod by tho Ex-rntiras. ____

(d) Bro-isL irecutive Comitteos must imodlately appoint VOLUNTEER BOARDS consisting of ONE Vi'i/J^SER-IH-CHIEF AND FOUR VOLUNTEER BOARD XBuXBB. Volunteers must sign tho new r.p U r >tion forms which shall bo obtainable from the Provincial Office and must bo c: mr.sed by the VOLUNTEER BOARD in groups of ton or twonty under group leaders. Tha YOi.,fNTEERS must be given tasks to perform and must rocoive political education) LECTURE .il] be obtainable from Head Quarters.

(e) All ^ :jic ies must inplenent tv>- -.jw system of branch organisation adopted at tke last annual io.ift.i*onco of the AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. Tho nothod to be followed in the new pchcne 1 ' o posted to branches soon.

(f) Brancioc must give a constant 1aad to the pooplo in thoir areas on Natiorw al and local issues V. .t effect then in order to jain the support and confidenoe of the people.

(g) Brat ■ ’ist encourage their r.orihors t^ rc:*\d, roll and support the peoplo’s paper WNSW which is the only newspaper in Soutr JVica today that supports

i tho Congress and its ^.cisions without reservations.• Instruct :vr to branches must* as boon as possible be transmitted to the

people and must net j ■* >n the pockets of Executive officials, EJvjrything done in the branch by tho Offici -’.nd all public monies spent hy then should be fully and truthfully reported tc t.“ 3 people as this croatcs a healthy atnos*5hero and respect of the peoplo for thi ir leadership.

Co-oporatv with Head Quarters, This year new nethoJs of organisation have been adopted which w i '1 ^hable the Provincial Hoad Office to maintain constant contact with each and overy lr- —.'•h; On their pert, branches nu5t legally rupport and asAiet Head Quarters alcr^ ad opened to us by our banned and proscribed DEFIANCELEADERSHIP.

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AfltlCAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (CAPE^ Nc. 2 1955.i

H(y TO IMPLEMENT THE NEW ORGANISATIONAL F U N OF THg ArVtlCAH NATIONAL CONGRESS.

(1) ALL BRANCHES MUST OBTAIN STEWARD CARDS WITHOUT WHICH THE TOT SYSTEM CANNOT BE CARRIED OUT. STEWARD oARDS WILL BE S W T TO THE BRANCHES AND MUST BE IB ED IN ACCORD­ANCE WITH INSTRUCTION:’ ISSUED HERE-UNDSl;

(2) STEWARD CARDS MUST BE HANDS) TO GROUP LEADERS ArTOIIiTED BY THE EXECUTTTE.OOMMITTEB OF THE BRANCH. EACH STEWARD CARD HANDED TO A GROUP LEADER SHALL BE SIGNED AT .THEBACK BY THE LOCAL BRANCH SECRETARY. Ofl THIS STEWARD CARD SHALL BE VRITTJBf THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE GROUP LEADER IN THE SPACE PROVIDED. THE SECRETARY OF A BRANCH MUST

KEEP A DUPLICATE OF SUCH STEWARD CARD.

(3) E V B Y GROUP LEADER SHALL BE HANDED TWBITi MfMEEhSHIP CARLS SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE BRANCH. THE SECRETARY SHALL RECORD IN A BOOK THE NAME OF THE GROUP LEADBl AND THE NUMBER OF MEMBERSHIP CARDS HANDED TO HIM.

(i) ON THE STEWARD CARD THE GROUP LEADER SHALL WRITE IN THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ' Pffittnns IN HIS GROUP OR ALL PERSONS TO WH3M THE CROUP LEADER HAS ISSUH) MEMBERS HIM

CARDS. • •

(5) MDffiJBS OF THE GROUP MUST BE EKROLUD BY THE GROUP LEADER FR(W THE SAME STREET AND AS NEAR AS POSSIBLE TO WHERE HE RESIDES.

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(6) >TAn ON THE STEWARD CARD MUST APPEAR ON THE SPACES PROVIDED THE SUBSCRIPTIONS AND LIVIES PAID BY EACH MEMBER BELONGING TO THAT GROUP.

(7) NOT MORE THAN TWENTY MEMBERS CAN BE PLACED IN ANY UNE GROUP. NO M J M B © CAN BE INTHAN ONE GROUP AT ANY ONE TIME. MEMBKS CANNOT F* T'BA * ' ° " ’O A*OTUR (9CW

WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE BRANCH SECRETARY. . .r ; ,DUTIES OF GROUP UAD.BCl.' V, , ‘

to enrol members into the African National Congress. ~* . . ■ '(b) To issue raaaberahip card# and oollect subscriptions and levies ftp00 msnfcar* of th* m m raoocd ttasi on the Steward Cards. • ~7t> Tb report every nonday Mbfc to the.branofa searetary and hand over to ida eeunteav foils, subscriptions and levies, The Secretary shall in turn record the ■information onthe dtttlioate steward oard filed with him. . ,(d) To regular meetings of the group in the houses of croup rwnbors and discussthe best methods of inplenenting Congress decisions. __(a) To actlvise members and provide then with political xiucation under the supervlsloiof the Executive Cocmittee. ___

DUTIES OF GROUP l«yiffiRSt.1, MeobflrS shall regularly attend meetings oal3ed by t> - - ,up loader. At each mealing a Chairman shall be elected to preside over the meeting; alfk. 1 re shall be electeda recorder who shall in a record book write the nane3 cf group r.ombers present and the work done by each member sinee the last meeting to further tho progress of the Nation. A different Chairman and recordnr must bo oloctod at eaoh 1 looting in order to train group members for leadership,2, Each group member must be an organiser and loader In W s pLaco of employment in tne street whore he resides and must always be an example to tho pooplc around him,3, Every group member must study tho conditions of the peoplo rml-the political means

required to alter those conditions,A. Groip members must report to thu*.Exccutive through the group leader everything they see or hear which affects any African or the reverent gdoerally in taty way whether at work or at home. Such reports aro an important part cf the bToup members as they vill enable the movement to know at all times vhat ia being 3 -id or what is befcngplanned against the organisation. T ,rTVT,T»rr,ALL CROUF MEMBER- ..-oi ATTEND AND ENSURE THAT ALL THE PEOPLE AlOUHD^THBI WILL ATTSIDMEETINGS CALLED BY THE AFRTCKi l.'..*xO:TAI -ILEMHITDECISIONS TAKEN AT SUCH MEETINGS.

Issued by the African National Congress: P.O.Box A8, NliW BRIGHTON.

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!■.]. T . O S C R ^ (CAPE) No 3. 1955

' • r us ^■TR0Y T!:IS ^'-ONSTBU.

ainu-i-Tho lr l;Consider a r.r: 1 EDUCATTCK AST”/ J unendinr war t pn ■ lives very rrrcnt xyists have; cVo ; : i content with 1 1 little children r

Th:y kne\ 1 . . - turn than av-.y fr ithese forty yor-r-. ’• -t r. their n o far i our t,c

The Eantn -Ti­the true nature of

-r A sen Naticncl Congress in Durban had to-T..^ -hose the rost serious was the "BANTl

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•' ir-i' of those the r.ost serious vas tho "BANTl V'-' O i v W ! -utiotwiliet Govenvicnt hrd carried on an

• 1 though this war affeotod our hor.es and‘n 'k '/••‘-••fiwHe out.iide the hr :no. Today the National- • racist V»ots into ovary African hone. Not ;‘7 ^vlts, they want to defeat us by turning our own

r.n'. warp tho brain of little children andV t > and frcolon fcr which we have t o i l e d //

A'Vican teach rr and African nonoy//////

vt'» assist than 1- realise) lo frened in such a way that it does not revea

tho African peo-lo; but in the past

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few yoars the Af' c ’ out exactly what :j.‘- ^ frank and opnn a t-.nit published a book!

- .wivo Plainst tho Africar. people; but in the past

lc.7 »vMt.vc people generally hav-j beon able J ™ . i" 'to-c *'T V 3 Fortunevly the fascists have been very nti- ae. In the early y u x s of t» :lr rule, the Nationalists*•* . _ - ,____ ti ..u j +.V10 rj»in

;trtitlOv! r-vr

I* a;’, xn w*c etuj-jr - — ----»like ’Jasionallo C*ndarwys" which set out the naln

r------■-- - A -u- of tho South African people.ideas of this rna s<ut^"A ;• outTook lt propagated was a oonplctc

.. S f l ^ h - - i ’V *atriTcn f.C in xho past fire thousand of civilisation, negation of al^ - - - „ «» *j,Q ;iationrlist prrty was condemned by ell

.U'.t r” r «o»:oiarr doccn..unti U t o r the I S m M t sane people as a * .ck* r - ‘ „ +,n_ *uien tho rcpcrt was published and the

C^lical°olar'^ilVf0tl'c^Nati^ I*r-tl~JLed therein, again the A f r i c a n people anddiabolical pl .T-v *. >r.+ nd the Cc’Tiission 8 report in toto.their Allies in of t h i . 1 5 , the H.tio^During tho oarl ^ ^ nlnd ^ our children.

alists fn w i n eowor to alter and destroy the systoi thatiodoy wtu *«a iijHili-W . T4- 4 frvston of education

has been built-wibh av a-, o/or H ^ i b o did net rako for tho oonplete •we have had so thore wero loopholes through yhich Africansharnonious dovo-at/->«*t <.* • ** • (.j. advantage up to now

hero and there c^.’d c:c,.pc and r;^‘ . °foc+l*that beinp GI'^K AND UNDERTAKEN LARGELT in the educatir it-' eyev*r. riati V--«r>v v* ^ .-»■•:•• t i- rjRS AIID HAD DECOKE A WDRID * : THROUGH A U I J G ^ K 1"IAT IA. a ^ICAN’S^WITH THE ft&T OF MANKIND IN SHARING THE

« s b m - O T T ® a k d w t h eCULTUiUiL rn uc .t • - * <r ..,v r c .y -t v '-/’ GV THE FUTURE.

PROGRESS W . < . ; ; ^ 0 64 caJ nctona for finance on the Chwch, * » t i st ' +u *“> , ... ■ r- -tions, bazaars org-*vrrlsod bj% the African fcongr

it depended on th. ^ ^ ;,n t .t> d d of ovr education and that wasgations thens^j -cc, • - - • - ^ ionartat. ^n the different churchesa U . In. thio forgotten) thebut, (And t h o . p , ^ ^ ^ - ; ^ , - vc had to .truggle hard to nake these +African oongrog . ■ * ; -rr'-lcoo they contri^it.ed as n-a oers of theschools pqssiJ-0 nni,._ uri ^ ^ ^ ^ f1 d not ^ i d p a t e in the earlydifferent churchn struggles for A£Congregations ar- _ ^systen workable,,

At proj. nt hrv;

of our eanpaign 4 • 'THIS YEAR LET C l.TA

Thir> Ac’.devolopnor.t fu: own children to tho Act and soo V nust neet a - 1 children occiij i /;

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■h r.u-* : r ; * LOS who drd not participate in the .early * - 3 ••nd without cons'jlt*;ig their African*1 o.r future by naking the Vorwcerd education

I..: F RiJCKt.iilSG IS !;(Ji ...... ’ -4-0 nUc+- 1 ;> r-t V-var'1 • ensuring the success

" ; c h ^ i - W f ^ ^ i A F M L lVf'5- OK APRIL fOOIS* DAYr & . ’-v :ChLOir .

livisi r , inform ,-r “tntus and etuntoa \. w*?9B devil’s work. We cannot lead our

> 't u> a'' ca:vjoipn all vigorously against-T^c A^Vir- scho-»lf remain unaty. Kean tine the people

m «cii£;' v:tc;inauive rv.«tods of keeping our■t__-f

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V-PA OU I1X A .U J. W W W !-,. '* ' ' , -

teachers vhr a m -nti' ‘he___ - 1 ( / . ’>■ -v '..0 V:t‘-

;ul.» — aha. ,finding alternative enpl^ynent for t« ose

- i « • ___ran a 0 n f 1Y V

On one thin*’ 1 vJ> GOOD.

not sell their :«oule for a nase of potato, ]£? US GET 0U2 CF '.rfflV'OERL ’ S SCHOOl^ FOR

tho, m .-Ui;'*.

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Bon of thi Ration,

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br*aoh to got thl* 4 Thing* happonlng tod*7»ho .r. ' n i U T S r & l J t l S ; th. Congr...,

. i ^ h ^ T “ m i ooontrjr. Th.Mfor. for hl».lf.

¥ « vtnt anot h e r ordor fro* you, thoro »]*•, o « P.0P1. I h H l Y S o t ord.r. Th.r. .r. - n r « p l « •* thTp2p.r. Support jour j»p.r Africa..

b o i u « i . . i» S T ' S S * Sh * M 8 0 *■upport you glT«»* D0 B0To f f m r f s o * .

Your* in th. battlo for froodom,

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Collection Number: AD1812

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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