Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… of Dr Alfred Xuma, a medical doctor who had been elected president of the ANC in 1940. Though still decidedly moderate … was elected, arch-conservative Pixley ka Seme became president and many of its radical members were expelled. The … work, abjuring complainers and agitators”¦. Seme, the president of the Congress, who, I am told, gets arrested for …