WOMEN ARRESTED IN DAWN RAIDS c n CNJ Vol. 3, No. 44 Registered at the G.P.O. as a news paper NEW WAVE OF PEBjiECUTION IN CO NORTHERN EDITION ITiursday, August 22, 1957 6d SOPHIATOWN JOHANNESBURG. OVER the last two week-ends, a fresh wave of dawn raids ^ for permits has been launched against both men and Treason Suspects Give women in Sophiatown. Truckloads of people were taken to the Newlands police station bebveen 2.30 and 3 a.m. on Sunday morning following a midnight A Concert Saturday swoop. Many women were arrested mth infants. On the previous Thursday and in Sophiatown and needed no p>er- Friday a large number of women nits. Some >women were told: ‘‘Ons as well as some men were arrested wil nie met julle Congresvrouens and charged under section 10 of praat nie!” According to the vic­ the Urban Areas Act. In all cases tims of the arrests an official of the people singled out were those the Resettlement Board accompa­ living in the buffer zone, and accor­ nied the police and pointed out the ding to the residents, arrests were houses to be raided. made of people living on properties that have not been sold to the Re­ PROTEST MEETING settlement Board. The ANC Women's League has Since the end of May this year .ailed a mass protest meeting in when a nuCs demonstiation), ten Sophiatown on Sunday, August 25. thousand strong, went to protest to the Mayor of .Johannesburg, no-per­ mit or pass raids have ever taken place in Sophiatowm. This has fur­ ther strengthened the belief Boycott Ends amongst the people that this week’s raids are a new form of pressure by the Resettlement Board to com­ Against One pel them to go to Meadow'lands. ILL IN BED Several women told New Age Firm that they were pulled out of their houses. Mrs. Pat Dlamani was ill JOHANNESBURG. in bed wih flu but the police told l^ H E Congresses have decided to her to get up and refused to give call off the boycott of the pipe her a chance to dress properly. tobaccos manufactured by Messrs. The women were then hustled John Chapman, Ltd. This action into the ‘Kwela-Kwela’ and taken follows representations by the firm to the Newlands police station. stating that it is not controlled by Since many of them had small the Rembrandt Tobacco Corpora­ babies they were allowed to go tion. home without having to pay bail, In letters to the African National and told to report to the Native I.a$t Sunday the treason suspects staged a concert in Johannesburg, under the auspices of the ‘‘Stand By Congress and the other organisa­ Commissioner’s court the next day. tions which have applied for a Our Leaders” committee. The massed ‘‘Drill Hall Choir” (above) gave a kick-off to the evening's enter­ All the cases will be defended. tainment From the left: M. Moolla, W. Mini, Rev. Calafci. D. Fuyani, Sonia Bunting, Ida Mntwana, boycott of Nationalist-controlled During the raids the police re­ firms and products (the Indian Con­ Frances Baard, E. Moretsele, M. Motihakoana, Asa Dawood and S. Malope. fused to listen to arguments of Below: The Alexandra People’s Quartet singing ‘‘Nyi ki thi” (£1 a day song). See story on page 4. gress, Congress of Trade Unions, those who said they had been born Coloured Peple’s Organisation and Congress of Democrats), Chapman’s TREASON TRIAL state that their firm “is not con­ trolled by any Nationalist persons or shareholders.” It is correct, states the letter, that the Rembrandt concern (which the There Must Re Congresses allege to be Nationalist- controlled) holds a half of their share capital. But it has never in­ terfered with the conduct of the business, which is controlled by a board of directors of which the re­ A Limit” presentative of Anglo-Transvaal In­ dustries, Ltd., is the Chairman, and which includes the general manager, Mr. M. Hammerschlag, who is the Defence Protests At founder of the firm. CONGRESS REPLY Replying to this letter, the Ck>n- Crown Tnctics gresses state that they accept these From RUTH FIRST assurances. ‘‘In these circum­ stances,” declares a joint letter DRILL HALL, Johannesburg. signed by Chief Lutuli, Dr. Naicker and Messrs. G. Peake, P, Beyleveld J^AST week’s treason trial proceedings were studded with and Leon Levy, on behalf of the angry outbursts by Defence Counsel at “the fantastic various* organisations, “we shall en­ deavour tt> make^'certain that all lengths” to which the Crown is going in the case, and the those who are protesting against “unethical” conduct of the Crown in the leading of the cumulative discriminatory legis­ evidence. lation of this Government do not boycott any of the tobaccos manu­ ‘‘We could be here permanently . for the rest of our lives.” factured by you, including the protested Mr. J. Slovo. Evidence of the 1906 Bambata Rebellion brands Mine Captain, Chapman’s might be brought in by the Crown in its search for evidence of Special, Silver Cloud, Greyhound, violence committed in the country! Wayside, Champion and Iris.” The accused before the court, the Crown’s approach to this case Chapman’s are not a party to the said Mr. Slovo, were arrested on we could be here for ever. current legal proceedings against the warrants alleging high treason com­ Congresses taken by the Rembrandt mitted between 1953 and 1956. Evi­ WHEN WILL IT END? company, in which an interdict was dence was now being led of events ‘‘This preparatory examination NURSES FIGHT BACK obtained against the issuing of cir­ in the years 1951 and 1952, and has gone on for an oppressive culars calling for the boycott of even the months of 1957 after the period. We again want an indica­ various brands of cigarettes, includ­ tion from the Crown of the scope ing Rembrandt, Van Rijn, Peter “Is it alleged by the Crown that of this inquiry, where it begins and — Page 4 Stuyvesarit, Rothmans and Lexing­ we are Just continuously commit* where it will end. Will we be sitting ton. Argument in this case will b? High Trwwn? On the hoele of (Com(hUf4 fr(jm 3) heard on 27 in Pretoria EDITORIAL The United Party Misses The Bus ’pH E United Party’s much-boosted pre-election Congress in Bloemfontein has produced a still-born white mouse. “The United Party is the party of reform,” proclaimed the brains and the bank of the Party, Mr. Harry Oppenheimer, a few days before the Congress. Apparently he had in mind a multi­ racial Senate, but he was unable to win any support for that in his “reform” party. Instead, the Bloemfontein Congress has produced a “master- race” plan which hasn’t even the virtue of being practicable. The Senate is to be reconstituted, and will be elected directly by the voters instead of by electoral colleges. Coloureds and Africans (but not Indians) will be allowed to elect Europeans to represent them in the Senate, and those Coloureds who were on the com­ mon roll before 1951 will be restored to the common roll for Assembly election purposes. But .... • There is to be a “White veto” in the Senate—all laws will have to be approved by a majority of the Senators who represent Europeans. • The qualifications for Non-European voters are to be raised. So where is the “reform”? Not even De Villiers Graaff made any claims about “reform” in his various speeches and press conferences at Bloemfontein. On the contrary, he declared that the specific object of the United Party plan was to “entrench ‘DON’T GET THE WRONG IDEA! THIS IS ALSO FOR EUROPEANS ONLY!” White leadership for ever.” Then what is the point of the plan? The Nationalist Party already has the magic formula for entrenching white leadership NEW ACE Meet Nr. And —apartheid. Does the United Party think its plan is any advance Mrs. Nna. on that? Does the United Party think it has any hope of out­ bidding the Nats for the support of those voters who demand What the devil shall they call white supremacy before anything else? LETTER BOX him? The mystery of the U.P. plan is perhaps made clearer by Sir, don’t yyou understand? De Villiers Graaff’s statement that “it is felt that these steps For if you call a Black man mister * will do much to retam the friendship of the Cape Coloured He’ll try eloping with your sister, people in their traditional position and, while ensuring White LIFT THE IRON CURTAIN And to shake he’ll offer you his political control, will bring a much-needed stability to our politi­ hand. cal institutions.” What the devil shall they call In other words, he hopes his White supremacy plan will win FROM SOUTH AFRICA him support from Non-Europeans as well as Europeans. To remind him of his race? What a hope. Non^Europeans are not interested in White That in workshop, kitchen, plaas supremacy. No section of the Non-European people will have With reference to your article colour bar in sport if we ourselves It’s the White man who’s the baas “Where’s The Iron Curtain Now?” refuse to prostrate ourselves be­ And the Black man better keep anything to do with the half-baked U.P. plan. we have always been at pains to fore it. We must build a Mass his place. The Bloemfontein Congress shows that the United Party is show how false and michievous Youth Movement of all those who hopelessly out of touch with the people, both White and Non- this propaganda i»/ are opposed to apartheid in the Vcrwoerd has got the answer— Where there is a real Iron Cur­ universities, in church, in sport He’ll call the fellow Mna.