A resolution calling for Africans countrywide to stay at home, in protest against the Unlawful Organisations Act, is taken in Durban

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31/05/2011

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31/05/2011

28 May 1950

Africans made a unanimous resolution for a “National Day of Mourning and Protest” on which Africans countrywide would be ordered to stay at home. The resolution was taken during a rally held in Durban on 28 May 1950.

References

Anon, (1955), “Decision reserved on application to run ‘All class’ buses,” from The Star, 26 May, [Available at the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus]pg 1.

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