Following a wave of African workers’ strikes, a delegation of religious and political leaders and workers from the Rand met Prime Minister Louis Botha. SANNC members Saul Msane and Isaiah Bud-M’belle were among the delegates. The meeting illustrates both Congress’s role as a political interlocutor and the limits of a strategy that sought redress from a government responsible for enforcing the racial labour and pass systems.
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What did the 1918 delegation to Prime Minister Botha reveal about the SANNC?
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Congress leaders joined religious figures and workers in a delegation, showing both its mediating role and the limits of petitioning.
No SANNC figures took part in the 1918 delegation to Prime Minister Botha.
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Saul Msane and Isaiah Bud-M’belle were among the SANNC members in the delegation.