Africanists Cut Loose - Peter Motsele. On first
Africanists Cut Loose - Peter Motsele. On first day in open conference, big voiced Africanist, Peter Motsele, says: President asks us to co-oprate with apartheidists. We want no co-operation with th whites at this stage. His followers cheered and stamp their feet. But there are just as many people who sit grim and silent. It was one of the stormiest conferences for many a day. Tempers flared, sticks were brandished. But it was not violence which made the drama. The high moment, the real tension came with the decision of the Africanists to split from the Transvaal Congress. Saturday, November 1, 1958. The threat of rain in the air; of political roar in the area. We wait impatiently outside the Sekgapa-Madi Blood-spilling Hall in Orlando, Joburg, where many a bloody Congress has broken out in the past. Scheduled to open at 2pm, the conference does not begin until well after3.30 pm. Meanwhile, feverish and purveys beer, show that last minute plans are being polished up
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