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Drum Stories
Description: DM2000021723:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:OCT1952 - The Story Of Defiance - Dr Dadoo. April 6, At Freedom Square, Fordsburg, the crowd masses to hear Dadoo speak on the platform. The defiance campaign was born over a year ago, in Johannesburg, on July 1951, when non-white leaders met and decided to form a Joint Planning Council to co-ordinate Africans, Indians and Coloureds, and "to embark upon an immediate mass campaign for the repeal of oppressive measures" which the Council pledged to attack were, and still are, limited to the Pass Laws, Stock Limitations, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Voters, Represantation Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, and the Suppresssion of Communism Act. The Joint Planning Council consisted of J.B. Marks, Dr Moroka and Walter Sisulu, of the African National Congress. They issued a report, to be put before the African National Congress, the Government should be called on to repeal the unjust laws, if they refused, mass demonstrations were to be held followed
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
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Drum Stories
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 2150 x 1990
Media Id: 19_928
Credit: Drum Stories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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