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4
March
1942

ANC deputation raises African rights and wartime grievances with the government

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Organization history 📅 4 March 1942 📍 South Africa

An ANC deputation met Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Native Affairs D.F. Reitz. It raised African military service and representation, land, education, wages, trade-union recognition, the Native Administration Act and pass laws. The meeting exposed the limits of government consultation: African people bore the burdens of wartime mobilisation while the white minority government retained political control and enforced racial restrictions.

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A.B. Xuma

ANC deputation

D.F. Reitz

Organizations in this Event

African National Congress