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2 Africa Special Report 1 (1957)

handle is hein.cow/afsrep0002 and id is 1 raw text is: January 28, 1957 Volume 2, Number I SPECIAL REPORT ETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RELATIONS, INC. . 1234 20TH STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON 6. D. C. CABLE: AFRAM, WASHINGTON DISTRICT 7-S971, 7-1091 CHEERING CROWD shouts Atrika,. gives thumbs up salute at Atrican National Congress as prisoners arrive in police vans for trial opening--Wide World Photo. Treason Inquiry Underway In South Africa FIVE HUNDRED armed policemen surrounded the army drill hail in Johannesburg January 9 as South Africa's mass treason inquiry resumed after several weeks' recess, Accused were 103 Africans, 23 whites, 22 Indians and 8 colored (mixed blood), includ- ing top members of organizations throughout the Union opposing white supremacy govern- ment, Preparatory examinations may run at least six months and the defendents, initi- ally imprisoned, are now free on bail. Prelimninary proceedings opened December 19 but were quickly drowned out as 51,000 Atricans packed tightly around the drill hail singing Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika (God Bless Africa) . Hearings the following day were interrupted by sounds of gunfire as South African police broke up demonstrations on the streets. Although the arrests in December cane at a time when world attention was diverted by events elsewhere, observers noted that the move had been foreshad- owed by a number of evidence -gather ing raids and had been predicted for months. Persons close to the political situation in the Union reported that several persons know~n for years to be Communists were taken along with such non-white liberal leaders as Prof. Z.K. Matthews in the mass pickup. The Government contends it is trying to save South Africa from Communist sub version, Critics, however, tend to think it is more a question of prolonging the sec urity of white supremacy government by intimidation of non-white opposition. Apart fo the Commaunist issue, it was not immediately Mclear what the Government expects to accom- lish in terms of the race problem and some witnesses considered the setting and stagin of the inquiry disturbingly provocative. Some concern has also been felt that by labeling the leading non-white polica groups as Communist, the Government may even be handing Communism something of a hero' Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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