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Congress of the People starts in Kliptown
25 June 1955

Congress of the People starts in Kliptown

The historic multi-racial convention called The Congress of the People started in Kliptown, near Johannesburg. The proposition for this form of gathering came from Prof. Z.K Matthews at the African…