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...Johannesburg, 20,000 Africans milled around the police station, led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 36, a Methodist-reared university instructor, who heads the Pan-African Congress. Fifteen miles to the south, in Evaton, 70,000 Africans turned out. The nervous police made few arrests of the demonstrators; at Langa, near Cape Town, they opened fire to disperse the Africans, killing three and wounding...
...committee was appointed at Tuesday night's election meeting after charges of vote buying and unfair election practices had been levelled against leaders of the club by Sanford J. Langa '51 and John Gregg '52. Gregg and Langa, leaders of a faction within the H.Y.R.C., were dismissed from the club on a charge of vote buying...
Poole issued a statement saying the recording was not used as blackmail but that Gregg and Langa volunteered to drop out of the election to stop the recording's circulation...
Gordon L. Poole 2L, president of the club, denied that there were any "ringers" at the meeting. "We opened the meeting and fairly presented both sides," he said in reply to an allegation by Gregg and Langa that they had received no advance notice of the expulsion...
...recordings showed, according to Poole, that Gregg, Langa, and Bingham were trying to pay the dues of new members who were pledged to vote with the anti-club leadership faction that the three were leading...