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...Communists. The government was also confronted by a second demonstration, a "Congress of the People," which brought together 4,000 Negroes, Indians and colored at the native location of Kliptown, outside Johannesburg. There South Africa's Communists made a determined effort to pull the three big non-white groups in South Africa into a single anti-government front. For the first time, the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress and the South African Colored People's Organization (all Communist infiltrated) sent delegates to sit on the same platform. More important, they sat alongside the Congress...
Readymade Opportunity. In its countermeasures, the Nationalist government was at its most inept. On their way to the congress at Kliptown, many of the "delegates" were hauled out of their trucks and cars by cops on the pretext that they did not have proper papers. Police photographers shot pictures of every white man attending the congress, including newsmen ("Just for the record," they explained), and at one point, armed police forced the male delegates to empty their pockets and the women to turn out their handbags, on the suspicion that some of them were carrying "inflammatory material...
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