15 July 1953
African National Congress (ANC) members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe, went overseas under false names and without passports. The two arrived in London, England and from there they went to Bucharest, Romania, where they attended the communist "World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship". After this, they embarked on an extensive tour through the countries behind the iron curtain as guests of the Communists. They travelled through Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia and Communist China.
They returned to South Africa on December 1953 and attended the 41st annual conference of the ANC at Queenstown, where it was decided to begin a boycott campaign.
References
O’Malley P. ‘1953’, from O’Malley: The Heart of Hope, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org(Accessed: 31 May 2012)|South African History Online, ‘Albert J. Luthuli, Oliver Tambo, Duma Nokwe, Robert Resha and Walter Sisulu’, [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za(Accessed: 31 May 2012)