NEW AGE, THURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1960 MASS SLAUGHTER BY NEW ERA IN BASUTOLAND In Maseru recently, the whole Basuto nation rejoiced at the installation of Bereng Seeiso as Paramount Chief and the swear­ POLICE ing in of the new Legislative Council as the first step on the {Continued from page 1) Bophelong and four bombers flew day and by nightfall was in the overhead. A large crowd coming prison cells. country’s road to self-govern­ and some bodies were identified by ment. hurritied relatives on the spot Wo­ from Tsirela township, also of Van­ PAC RACIALISM men covered their heads with their derbijl Park, turned back at the arms and wept and their cries could news of the baton charge of the Monday’s tragic events were pre­ Our pictures show: Left: The be heard from far off. Bophelong people. ceded on Sunday afternoon by a swearing-in ceremony, with Bri­ Police closed off the area, kept Skietcommandos including at least PAC attempt to break up an ANC tain’s High Commissioner Sir reporters out and refused to allow one women in a lace blouse, were meeting in Mofolo Village, one of photographers to take pictures. out around the Vanderbiljl Park Johannesburg’s south-west town­ John Maud officiating and Be­ Tension was building up again area and police reinforcements were ships. At times police firing from a reng in the seat of the Para­ after the shooting and as the shock rushed in and top police officers Saracen at the ready nearby seemed mount Chief; of the news spread. As we left the took command. imminent in view of ANC-PAC friction. The ANC meeting, which area more Saracens were rolling in. GENERAL STRIKE Right: Part of the enormous The firing with such shockingly was on local issues, was furiously crowd which gathered at Maseru heavy casualties was the second Monday’s events marked virtually heckled and interfered with by a time that day the police had opened a general strike in the Vereeniging PAC group led by R. Ndziba and to witness Bereng’s installation; fire at Sharpeville. The first and and Vanderbijl Park area. Iscor M. Mafate. PAC men actively inter­ smaller incident had been dnring suspended operations due to the ab­ fered with the meeting and shouted Below: Elizabeth Mafekeng, the morning. sence of its African labour force. threats of violence. once a fleeing exile, now an Bophelong location of Vanderbijl Evaton township too did not go The ANC acted to avert trouble by moving the crowd across the adopted daughter of Basuto­ Park did not go to work on Monday to work. No buses ran and many land, in full regalia for the in­ either and a huge crowd of men, thousands gathered outside the po­ street to an open space while the women and even children converged lice station. The crowd dispersed Africanists then went into a huddle stallation of Bereng. With her in on the police station. They stood later. to decide on their next action. this picture are Mr, Bob Asmal there for some time. In Johannesburg a score or so of PAC heckling included shouts: PAC leaders, Sobukwe among them, “To hell with Lutuli. He’s a sell­ of Evaton and (far right) Mr. J. The police gave the crowd an Molefe and Mr. J. (Anti-Pass) order to disperse in five minutes. It marched to the police stations in out” Also “Down with the ANC. is not clear if the five minutes the morning to announce they had They are Communists,” and “Away Kumalo. elapsed, but the police launched a left their passes behind. The PAC with the Indians and away with the full-scale baton and rifle-butt charge leadership was arrested later in the Jews.” and threw tear gas. The police pur­ sued the people right back into the township. At a crossroads a fruit truck was stopped by a section of the crowd which grabbed the fruit and vegetables and pelted passing LANCA'S NIGHT OF First Fruits of Bantu Education traffic. A police van arrived on the scene and shot into the crowd kill­ ing one 19-year-old. His body was left lying there. Several others are TERROR reported to have been wounded {Continued from page 1) badges were displayed. There were isolated cries of “Masi- there. by; “I hope the kaffirs kill you.” Fifty White and 100 African jw- hambe 2^nke!”—“Let us all go!”— Shocking Exam Results In Three Saracens then moved into The streets were crowded with lice, under the command of Major but for the rest the people pressed tense, sullen and angry people. Rheeder, stood by at Philippi and forward silently, but determinedly. Death of Ida Mntwana PEACEFUL START another large force had been mobi­ Queues were organised quickly lised at Langa. and the men waited quietly for their New Age regrets to announce the Thousands of African workers be­ Many of the police were armed turn to enter the police station. death of Mrs. Ida Mntwana, vete- gan gathering at Langa and Nyanga African Schools with sten-guns and others carried Large numbers were still awaiting r.m ANC women’s leader and a at dawn on Monday morning in riot sticks. Two Saracens were former treason trialist, at her home their turn at noon, with hundreds i’T^HE examination results of the lower marks than Grade B which is being used as a stop-gap until the large-scale ^demonstrations against parked in the rear court-yard at the still to be dealt with crowding the first group of scholars to write taken in the northern provinces. first group of teachers trained in in Western Native Township, Jo­ the pass laws. The demonstrations Philippi station. inner and outside court-yards. hannesburg, following a heart were preceded by well-attended the Bantu Junior Certificate Exams ENGLISH DOOMED? Verwoerd’s own training sch lols attack. No arrests were made. The reveal alarming trends in the deve­ The latest step that has been could take the field. At the end of meetings at both centres on Sunday, NO INCIDENTS demonstrators had their names and taken to lower further the standard The entire Congress movement where speakers from the Pan Afri­ lopment of Verwoerd’s Slave Edu­ 1959 these schools turned out their will mourn her passing. To her The police, however, confined addresses taken and were warned cation. of English is the order which has first lot of teachers, and the married can Congress had outlined their to appear at the Wynberg Magis­ # Fewer candidates wrote the been given to teachers in the second­ family and friends New Age con­ plans. themselves to keeping the road clear women were immediately given veys its heartfelt condolences. for passing traffic and there were no trate’s Court next Tuesday, March Junior Certificate exams than ary Schools to teach at least two notice to finish up at the end of A large group of the demonstra­ incidents. 29. in the previous year, 1958, subjects in Afrikaans and the rest this month. tors at Nyanga began the three-mile Spokesmen for the crowd ex­ NO WORK when Africans wrote the same in the vernacular. The teachers are To meet the requirements of MISSING^MAN IS march to Philippi police station just plained that the people had come to Groups of demonstrators at Phi­ examination as other racial under no obligation to teach any secondary schools a special course after 6 a.m. They walked along be arrested, as they had all left lippi, when asked whether they groups — the Cape J.C. subject in English except, possibly, was opened at Healdtown Training FOUND silently, in small groups of five or their reference books at home. would go to work on the morrow, # The percentage of first classes English itself. six. Institution and those who qualified JOHANNESBURG. The police did nothing until just answered with a unanimoui and re­ was considerably lower than DISPLACEMENTS there were granted a Bantu Educa­ Mr. Nage Mdeni, who disappeared By seven o’clock some 1,500 had after 9 a.m., when Major Rheeder sounding “NO! We shall stay away in 1958. When the government started tion Diploma. This course has now from his home in Zola township and gathered outside the police station, announced that all those who had from work for as long as necessary, # The percentage of ordinary cutting down on expenses by dis­ been transferred to Fort Hare. As whose picture New Age published, several hundred in the grounds and no passes and wished to be arrested until we get our demands.” passes was 20 percent lower missing male teachers it announced soon as their numbers increase they was found in the Pretoria district the others closely packed on both should come forward. Those who When asked what they intended than in 1958. that it wanted to employ more will displace the old teachers whom suffering from loss of memory, and sides of the road. did not wish to be arrested should to do when they appeared before The results in the Transkei are married women as they have a Dr. Eiselen called a “Liability” that is now back with his family. The demonstrators were quiet and go home. the Magistrate, they replied with reported to have been even worse. natural sympathy in their dealings must be liquidated if Bantu Educa­ well-disciplined. No banners or The entire crowd surged forward. the slogan: “No bail; No fines; No Answer to Police Raids Schools that had consistently had a with young children. But the truth tion was to develop according to defence!” good record of passes for years of the matter was that they were plan. A spokesman for one group collapsed. stressed that the struggle was non­ Worried parents were asking: violent. “Our struggle is a peaceful What is happening? Did the stu­ one,” he said. “We do not want dents suddenly become less intelli­ violence.” 5,000 AT MASS PROTEST IN gent now that they had to write No workers presented themselves apartheid exams, or was it the fault Fifty Arrested For for arrest at the Langa police sta­ of the teachers? tion, although several thousand gathered early in the morning at the POLICY FULFILLED Crossing Railway Line New Flats—the so-called “bachelor” MARITZRURG quarters. The teachers felt that the bad From Arthur Damane connect the Townships lies at the The crowd dispersed after the From Mandhla Nkosi Urging the people to strive for thunderous applause. results reflect a lowering of the JOHANNESBURG. far end of the line. At the other end police asked a young student leader DURBAN. greater unity and discipline and “It is disgu >ting to see the police, standard of education. The enforce­ YY^ITHOUT any warning, the of fhe line a level-crossing is of the demonstrators to ask them ^T\HE three police raids within calling for an intensification of the purporting to act in the name of ment of the vernacular as a medium S.A.R. police recently made an provided but it is as dangerous to to do so. ■■■ four days carried out last week recruiting drive initiated by the white civilisation, carrying on their of instruction coincided with the early morning swoop upon the cross here as anywhere else and MINOR INODENTS on the offices of the Congresses at Congress Alliance, Dr. M. M. Mo- raids in the manner they did,” said degrading of English, while hand­ people who were crossing the line many lives have been lost here over Two minor incidents were re­ Pietermaritzburg, far from intimi­ tala, President of the Pietermaritz­ Mr. J. E. Spence, Chairman of the work and scripture became examina­ which divides the Benoni and Watt- the years. Repeated requests by the ported to have occurred at Nyanga, dating the people, brought them burg branch of the NIC, said that local branch of the Liberal Party, in tion subjects with high marks, and ville Townships. These two town­ residents for the construction of neither of a serious nature. closer to the national liberatory or­ this meeting was the -nswer of the a speech punctuated with applause. these subjects were also zealously ships are regarded as one for all Booms and Stoplights or the em­ A bus travelling to the Epping ganisations than ever before. people to the raids by the police. The Liberal Party was in full enforced by the field officers. practical purposes. Over 50 persons ployment of signalmen at the cross­ factory area found itself unable to Since the raids, officials of the Mr. Moses Mabhida, popular accord with the struggle of the As a result teachers paid con­ were arrested and fined for crossing ing have been ignored. This knocks enter Vanguard Drive because of a S.A. Congress of Trade Unions in working-class leader and chairman South African Congress of Trade siderable attention to manual work the line. the bottom out of the argument now large crowd of demonstrators block­ Maritzburg have been hard pressed of the Provincial Working Commit­ Unions for higher wages and better and the vernacular. Pupils who The stiles which were previously made by the S.A.R. that the arrests ing the turn-off. The bus took to meet the demand from an in­ tee of the ANC, said that whoever working conditions, said Mr. scored highly in these subjects provided for the people to cross at are being made as a safety measure. another route. creasing number of workers who thought that he would frighten the Spence. Low wages and bad work­ passed Std. VI fairly easily. different points of the line were The people now regard these arrests A small road-block, consisting of want to be organised into trade workers away from their organisa­ ing conditions contributed to racial In the four years since Bantu removed soon after the arrests. as another pin-prick and expect a low wall of heaped-up sand and unions. tions by a show of force was living ill-feeling. Education was introduced, the The Wattville section of the continous arrests as long as there boulders, had been constructed At one of the largest and most in a fool’s paradise. Led by ANC volunteers with the teachers say, the standard of English Benoni townships sprawls along the is no suitable provision for crossing during the night across the road enthusiastic meetings ever held in The working'class, he continued, Congress flag flying high, the crowd has declined alarmingly. And the line for more than a mile. On the the line. leading to Nyanga from the Na­ Maritzburg, over 5,000 people would never deviate from its path marched through the streets in a fact that the pupils had to write the other side of the line is the biggest Thousands of pounds are being tional Road turn off. The road-block packed the “Matsheni Square” and of fighting for higher wages, better huge procession to the offices of J.C. Exams in English must have shopping centre of the area. The spent by the S.A.R. on the con­ was removed by the police. amidst thunderous applause, inter­ working conditions and freedom in the Congress, singing the popular been the cause of considerable residents complain that the incon­ struction of apartheid bridges at the These were the only incidents spersed with cries of “Afrika! Mayi- their lifetime. Congress song: “Wobhasoba indoda difficulty to the candidates. Added venience of walking half a mile or stations. The people now demand until the rioting broke out at Langa buye!”, heard representatives of the “This is a new generation; it is emnyama Verwoerd!” (“Watch out to this was the fact that practically more to a point only 1(X) yards away that ladder bridges be constructed Four Pan Africanist leaders—from left to right, Messrs Ndziba, Ngendane, Sobukwe and Nyoase present in the evening. Until then the entire ANC, SACTU, NIC and the Libe­ a generation which is determined to for .the black man Verwoerd!”) all the schools in the Cape wrote across the line will be intolerable. at suitable points between the two themselves at the Orlando police station for arrest. scene had been peaceful. ral Party condemn the raids. win freedom now,” he said amidst The police looked on helplessly. V Grade C Afrikaans which carries A bridge built some years ago to official crossings. TREASON TRIAL Dr. CONCO GIVES EVIDENCE Wilson Cunco, accused but I did not know much about Yengwa work?—I don’t know. He commit yourself unnecessarily, do try?—No, I am not prepared to con­ them.” did work with me as a member of you or do you not agree with what cede that. This refers to the police, No. 30, spent the whole of Mr. Trengrove: Did you ask any­ the Natal Action Council. I don’t is contained in these lectures?—I not to the Europeans as such. last week in the witness box. body about them?—Yes. know who else worked with him. would like to see them first. Dr. Conco was then questioned Cross-examined by Mr. J. J. Mr. Trengrove: Who? Mr. Trengrove: Were the volun­ Mr. Trengrove: You will be given about a memorandum on the draft Trengrove (for the Crown), he Dr. Conco: I asked fellow mem­ teers called to take a special pledge an opportunity to see them. constitution of the African National bers but I do not know who I according to this document? Dealing with articles published in Congress which refers to “Seizure said that the policy of the Afri­ asked. Dr. Conco: Let me see the docu­ “Isizwe” on the riots in Port Eliza of power” by the ANC. can National Congress was that Mr. Trengrove asked who was ment please. Yes, I see. beth. Dr. Conco denied that people He said that the ANC aimed at all the people of South Africa, responsible for publishing these lec­ Mr. Trengrove; Was there a spe­ who died during the riots would be seizure of power but explained that black and white, should be tures. Dr. Conco said he happened cial pledge taken at a meeting? regarded either by the African Na­ the method was to influence the to have been told that they were Mr. Juitice Rumpff: You mean a tional Congress or himself as heroes electorate to change the form of fully represented in all councils published by the National Action pledge taken at a special meeting? of the struggle for liberation. The government. The seizure of power of the State. He denied that the Council for the Congress of the Mr. Trengrove: Yes My Lord, riots were an outburst and had not would be political power when all policy of the African National People. according to this circular volunteers been organised. He said that the the people had the franchise. Mr. Trengrove: This body, the were to take a pledge at a special ANC had asked for a judicial in­ From a report of the ANC Mr. Congress was to overthrow the National Action Council for the meeting and then at a public meet­ quiry, but the Government refused. Trengrove read: “In a long drawn State by violence. Congress of the People, did you ing. Mr. Trengrove read portions of out battle there will be many minor He said that the ‘‘murder mur­ know about it?—Yes. Dr. Conco: I do not know if there an article about a tin of paint. victories, minor defeats, many ad­ Mr. Trengrove. This is the body was a special meeting but I do Quoting from the article “This was vances and retreats but victory der” speech made by Robert in which the African National Con­ know about the public meetings. the tin of paint that enabled fasc­ means the end of the cheap labour Resha at a meeting of volun­ gress, South African Indian Con­ Mr. Trengrove asked the witness ism to demonstrate its power,’’ Mr. system of South Africa. It can only gress and South African Congress of if the volunteers used to wear arm- Trengrove asked Dr. Conco if he be achieved by the overthrow of the teers at the Congress premises ruling class and by the winning of in November, 1956, was outside Democrats were represented?—Yes. bands, badges and uniforms. Dr. agreed with that. Dr. Conco said Mr. Trengrove: Were you ever a Conco said they did. that the language was strong but he the Freedom Charter as the ruling the policy of the African Na­ member of the National Action They were subject to a code of himself had no knowledge of the policy of South Africa.” tional Congress. Council for the Congress of the discipline?—Yes. happenings to say whether the ar­ Dr. Conco explained that the People?—No. They also had to carry out orders ticle was justified. He admitted that ruling class meant the whites who PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY Mr. Trengrove: Were you ever a from their leaders?—That is so. this type of article could create ra­ had the vote and the expression Dr. Conco said that he under­ member of the Natal Action Coun­ Mr. Trengrove: What was the task cial hatred. He further said he was “overthrow” meant to overthrow the stood the phrase “people’s demo­ cil for the Congress of the People? of the volunteers?—^To organise. seeing the article for the first time. people who are ruling not the state. cracy” to mean a democracy —Yes. Let me explain My Lords, let us It gave an interpretation of the The policy of the ANC was not to representative of all the people of Mr. Trengrove: Is it correct to say take the ANC, their job was to or­ events which were so serious that overthrow the state but merely the South Africa, irrespective of race. that the National Action Council ganise the people to enlist as mem­ an enquiry had b^en asked for. ruling class. Asked whether South Africa was a for the Congress of the People co­ bers of Congress, to organise by Mr. Trengrove said he would RE-EXAMINATION democracy today, he said it was a ordinated the activities of its con­ popularising the Congress of the show that the ANC was not as in­ Re-examining the witness Mr. democracy of the Europeans only stituent bodies in the struggle for People, to get the people to send in nocent as the witness said. He read Kentridge asked whether he thought who had the vote. He said the liber tion in South Africa? their demands for the Congress of another article from the “Youth that if a policeman who shot an terms “true democracy” and “peo­ Dr. Conco: It was a co-ordinating the People. League” bulletin expressing the African was charged with culpable ple’s democracy” were interchange­ body for the activities for the Con­ Mr. Trengrove: Were you a unit same attitude on the riots. Dr. Con­ homicide and fined £25 that would able, they meant the same thing. gress of the People. leader?—In my branch yes. co said that the Africans had very increase or decrease respect for the'* Dealing with the volunteers and Dr. Conco wa.: asked whether the Mr. Trengrove: Doctor, did you strong feelings concerning ix)lice law. Dr. Conco said that as far as their pledge, Dr. Conco said he re­ publications “Liberation” a n d do your work conscientiously?—To methods. He said that the police Africans were concerned they would called that there was a pledge taken “Fighting Talk” were discussed by the best of my ability. were harsh in their treatment of the resent that. by the volunteers but there was no the National Executive of the Afri­ Dr. Conco said that he gave lec­ people and this feeling might have Mr. Trengrove asked Mr. Kent­ formal ceremony for the taking of can National Congress. He said that tures to volunteers but did not use been projected in the article. He ridge to explain and Mr. Kentridge the pledge. He denied that there to his knowledge these magazines the three lectures because he could said that the ANC policy did not replied that he would explain that was an oath “To Kill or Not Kill” were not discussed. analyse the situation in this country support riots. at the argument stage. Mr. Justice taken by volunteers. Mr. Trengrove then gave the wit­ without using the lectures. He was Mr. Trengrove: Dr. Conco, you Rumpff wanted to know what was Mr. Kentridge (leading evidence ness a copy of the National Execu­ shown the bulletin “The Call” and are not prepared to concede that meant by the law, and Mr. Kent­ for the defence): According to the tive Report to the national confer­ in it was the lecture “The Country this article would have a harmful ridge replied that he was referring pleadings in this case, the policy of ence in Bloemfontein, 1955. We Live In.” effect on race relations in this coun­ to the administration of the law. the African National Congress was Mr. Trengrove: Do you remember Mr. Trengrove: Did you read this to overthrow the Government by the report?—I saw the report but I bulletin?—I don’t know if I read it. violence? was not at the conference; I was Did you receive it?—I don’t deny banned. that, I might have seen it but I do Book Review Dr. Conco: That is not true. not remember going through it. Mr. Kentridge: Did the African Mr. Trengrove: Do you know what this report says about publica­ If you had seen it would you have National Congress recruit volun­ been interested in reading it?—I teers?—Yes. tions?—No. Mr. Trengrove: Do you suffer would have been but that depends Preparing for active violence?— whether I had the time. I received a That was not the policy. from a bad memory Doctor? THE TOKOLOSH Dr. Conco: I don’t know that. lot of material from the Congress Was it a disciplined body?—Yes. of the People. Was it a semi-military body?— These things happened in 1955, now ,The tokolosh, according to Afri­ Beloved Country” (which was ap­ No. it’s 1960 and that is five years ago. Dr. Conco was shown another can lore, is essentially a mischievous propriate for the occasion, but Dr. Conco, replying to a question, Mr. Trengrove asked the witness document which was seized from blighter, with a pronounced sexual should be steered clear of in future), said that volunteers never carried if he held classes for the education his house by the police, a newsletter side to his character. In Ronald Se­ and yet it is probably perfectly out instructions of violence. He of the volunteers and he replied that by the Midlands Region of the Con­ gal’s new book (fantasy? satire? legitimate for an avowed fable. agreed that the methods of the he did. gress of the People. fable?) he is, however, neither. African National Congress were un­ You prepared the lectures at your Mr. Trengrove asked Dr. Conco Even if the style is a little poetic constitutional. They were the regional committee?—That was de­ if he was a party to the decision to True, he is michievous as far as and sentimental, what it describes methods of non-co-operation and cided by the committee or the sec­ issue a newsletter, he said that he White authority is concerned—in is certainly authentic. For example: civil disobedience. He said Congress retariat. was very much interested in the fact, any Nationalist politician “Suddenly a high sharp wail pierced employed these methods because the “Here I must explain My Lords, issuing of material for people to would recognise him instantly as an the waiting dark. ‘Peter! Peter, little African people have no vote. He I did not attend all the meetings,” read. agitator—but as far as the African one! Aiiiii! ’ And Peter’s mother agreed also that the African Na­ Mr. Trengrove: Doctor, did you Mr. Trengrove: When your idea people are concerned he is a veri­ rocked backwards and forwards, her tional Congress carried out cam­ carry out your duties as a member was realised, did you see the news­ table (ieus ex machina. heart bent double under the great paigns against existing laws such as of the National Action Council for letter. were you interested?—I was grief blowing upon it. And from a the Congress of the People in Natal, interested. He appears at just the right mo­ shack in the next street came a the Native Resettlement Act, Bantu ment, skilfully sowing confusion, Education and Pass Laws. did you carry out your work con­ Mr. Trengrove: Who decided shrill crying in answer, from a wo­ scientiously? what material should be put into the and ensuring first that a bus boycott man who would not see the father MARXISM Dr. Conco: To the best of my newsletter?—I don’t understand the is a success, and second that it of her children for many days, if ability I did. question. merges into a general stay-at-home. ever she saw him again . . . And Mr. Kentridge: What is the piolic^ from shack to shack the wailing of the African National Congress in Asked about a meeting at Fraser Mr. Trengrove: Were you also All this is very convenient for Station, Natal, and what the meeting among those that prepared the spread, a fire of pain leaping high regard to the situation in South material?—I might have been but the struggling Africans. When they in the sky . . and so the township Africa?—The African National was and who were the people who are on the point of failing, the attended it. Dr. Conco asked to see perhaps I did not attend. cried in its agony, one woman to Congress advocates racial harmony. Mr. Trengrove: You said that the tokolosh rescues them. He reveals another.” Dr. Conco said that he had not the document and said: “In the first to them their strength. When they studied Marxist-Leninist doctrine place this document ha^ no date.” first time you were aware of the finally fail it is of their own doing. Mr. Trengrove: Did you see this contents of these documents was at Straining after effect? Maybe. But and that it was never the policy of the preparatory examination of this it achieves the effect, and this the ANC to advocate the Marxist- document before?—I think so. It is This could have been the flaw in glosses over the strain. possible that it was used. case?—That is so. the fable: that you must seek your Leninist doctrine. Mr. Trengrove: Did you inquire Mr. Trengrove questioned Dr. Mr. Trengrove: Do you remem­ salvation in others. With a neat “The Tokolosh” is not a preten­ ber a document “Report of the Na­ who wrote these lectures, who was twist, however, the author turns it tious book. It runs to less than 1(X) Conco about a number of bulletins the author of these lectures?—They published by the ANC and the ANC tional Volunteer Corps?” into the eternal moral: seek ye the pages, with a number of first-class Dr. Conco: I think I have seen came from the headquarters of the tokolosh within thyself! The moral, cartoons by David Marais, who is Youth League such as “Mayibuye,” National Action Council. “Isizwe,” “Inyaniso,” “Afrika,” this document. But I don’t remem­ therefore, is for African, not White, easily South Africa’s best political ber if it was used at this meeting. Mr. Trengrove: Doctor, did you consumption. If this is a fantasy, it cartoonist. Some readers will like “Seegaba” and “Lodestar.” He knew or did you not know that these three some of these bulletins and he had Mr. Trengrove: Was there an is a very hard-headed fantasy. the book more than others: it is agenda at this meeting?—I can’t re­ lectures were prepared?—Yes. one of those books. I admit that it seen others but could not remem­ Mr. Trengrove: Doctor Conco, ber whether he read the articles in member the agenda of this meeting. What appeals to me most in the appeals to me, and for that reason Mr. Trengrove: This document did you at any stage inquire as to book is its obvious compassion. It I may be attaching more substance them. The bulletin “The Youth who wrote these lectures?—My League,” he said, he had never seen. does not refer to the Defiance Cam­ leveals a great love for the African to it than it actually possesses, but paign? Lords, I must explain this. I have people, and wholehearted identifica­ Answering a question he said that already said that I inquired and I at least the book’s heart is in the the ANC supported other bulletins. Dr. Conco. No. But I don’t know tion with their cause. One must pay right place. if there was a volunteers’ board. was told that it was the National this tribute to the author: he is ge­ He agreed that the ANC had urged Action Council. C.P.E. its members to read New Age be­ Who was the volunteer-in-chief? nuine in his feelings, even if some­ —It was Chief Lutuli. Mr. Trengrove: Did you inquire times, as “the young man whose cause it published Congress news. as to who was the actual author?— “The Tokolosh,” by Ronald Dr. Conco was asked about three Who were the volunteers-in-chief newspaper the police did not like,” of the provinces?—Natal it was No I did not. he is inclined to lecture the Africans Segal, published by Sheed and lectures, “The world we live in,” Mr. Trengrove: Do ytiu agree Ward, of London and New Yoric, “The country we live in” and Yengwa, Transvaal Resha. I don’t a little earnestly. remember the other provinces. with these lectures Doctor Conco?— and Africa South Publications “Change is needed.” He said he had I don’t know. I would like to see Some readers may quarrel over heard of these lectures for the first Mr. Trengrove: Cape was it not (Pty.) Ltd., of Cape Town. Price Mfaxa?—I don’t know. them. the style. It vaguely resembles the time in this case. “They might have Mr. Trengrove: Doctor, do not semi-Biblical prose of “Cry, the 8s. 6d. been found among my documents Mr. Trengrove: With whom did

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