"Let Us March In Unison "
Kgosana, Philip
On March 30, over 30,000 Africans marched in Cape Town to demonstrate against the cursed apartheid, and the tyranny of the South African regime was shaken. New young leaders arose to speak for...
...Let us unite and fight relentlessly for a noble cause...
...We are not going to throw stones at the police or do anything that is going to obstruct the police...
...Our people have been so conditioned to the dom pass that they have been known to buy it for £15 or risk death in an attempt to salvage it from a burning building...
...Yet what is most important is to overcome fear...
...We are either slaves or free men—that's all...
...We shall leave you to the judgment of the eyes of the world and to the great Gods of Africa...
...People are not going to join this struggle with evil personal interests in it...
...Hey, the kaffirs have gone mad...
...Fellow Africans, the hour for service, sacrifice, and suffering has come...
...We are not going to fight or attempt to fight, insult or attempt to insult, provoke or attempt to provoke the police in their lawful duties...
...We are fighting against the Calvinistic doctrine that a certain Nation was specially chosen by God to lead, guide and protect other nations...
...Whether the struggle fails or succeeds, somebody is to blame for tomorrow's country-wide uprising...
...The point is that if the Administration really is interested, as it claims, in the issue of arms control, then a chance should be given to try to negotiate the point...
...How long shall we be called Bantu, Native, Non-European, Non-White, or black, stinking Kaffir in our fatherland...
...The U-2 eclipses the chance for the moment, the chance to discover what it is that the USSR really does want to negotiate—which may, of course, be nothing...
...315...
...The myth of white supremacy must be blown to oblivion by the avalanche force of African Nationalism which sweeps the entire continent...
...Be careful of New Age, City Post and possibly the Argus...
...If anybody does all these things and the police begin to shoot, any person who will die or receive injuries shall be demanded on the head of the mischief maker...
...ALL OVER...
...The U.S...
...Oh, yes, we launch—there is no doubt about it...
...has its cloudy days...
...Forward to Independence...
...Let us march to a new and independent Africa with courage and determination...
...Our energies and forces are directed against a setup, against a conception and a myth...
...Therefore the last of the nihilists were Goebbels and Hitler...
...The question is how best we can achieve that...
...is zeroing in on the new missile bases within the USSR by means of the U-2...
...has made it clear that the first essential is a mental divorce from the Pass Laws...
...How long shall we starve amidst plenty in our fatherland...
...Even with what they might find out about SAC dispositions, this might be worth our while...
...We said that "those who are not with us are with the enemy"—at least Mr...
...Personally, I believe that for the moment disarmament is not as promising as certain types of rearmament in terms of maintaining the peace...
...has taken to preconference sabre-rattling, and has alerts in their midst...
...How long shall we be a rightless, voteless and voiceless eleven million in our fatherland...
...If the world did look this way to the Soviet premier, then it is no wonder that what happened at the summit did happen...
...Verwoerd...
...We do not want to be given impossible instructions such as—disperse in three minutes—or some such mumbled orders...
...We do not want to be provoked in any manner...
...continued from page 218 the Pass Laws, then the next thing and the next, etc.—up to 1963...
...Let us march in unison to the United States of Africa...
...Kgosana's speech at the launching of the march: Sons and daughters of the soil, on Monday, 21st March, 1960, we launch our Positive Decisive Action against the Pass Laws...
...What is necessary, then, is for every African to make up his mind that from tomorrow he will never carry the dom pass...
...Whether the oppressor likes it or not the Pass Laws must go tomorrow...
...Nobody is going to burn any building, office, school or any property of the government...
...At this stage of our struggle we have a choice before us...
...We are not fighting against Europeans or Indians or Chinese...
...We are not a horde of stupid, barbaric things which will fight against a white man simply because he is white...
...I want to be properly understood here...
...IN ORDER TO DESTROY this myth of race superiority, the Pan-Africanist Congress has drawn up an unfolding program— which starts tomorrow and ends up in 1963 with the realization of the United States of Africa...
...Let us close our ears to what the newspapers say and continue with our dynamic program...
...How long shall we stay in the squalors of Windermere or the Sahara Desert of Nyanga West...
...The first has to do with the role of fear...
...If the police officer wants us to disperse we shall disperse...
...If you baton charge us we shall not run away but we will not fight back...
...Our overall fight is against imperialism, colonialism and domination...
...We have decided to secure the total abolition of the Pass Laws...
...My prediction is that these police will not arrest us tomorrow...
...In short—we know what we are doing and we know how to do it...
...In that case, the President's order is that you peacefully disperse, without making any noise or interjections...
...Duma Nokwe...
...You KNOW our demands: Abolition of Pass Laws, minimum salary of £35 and no victimization of leaders or the people...
...Yet, it is the work of the good white man—umlungu osithandayo...
...5. U.S...
...The hardened stubbornness of the oppressor-group has driven us to a point of desperation...
...The P.A.C...
...WE ARE NOT GOING to burn or damage any part of the Pass Book in any manner...
...You know what is happening to the Hon...
...On what meat doth this our oppressive White Man Boss feed that he has grown so great...
...No sensible person can do that...
...It is in this connection that the whole U-2 incident seems so dreadfully wrongheaded...
...This means that not only the dom pass must go, but also the Labor Bureaus and influx control regulations must go with it...
...Perhaps Duma Nokwe is not carrying a pass—we do not know...
...When shall we be called Sir, Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ladies and Gentlemen...
...4. U.S...
...New young leaders arose to speak for the Negroes, as they have arisen recently in many parts of the world...
...Nokwe told us where he stands in yesterday's "City Late...
...Fear is driving us towards an increasingly aggressive stance, as one might expect that it would...
...Let the world, take note, that we are not fighting Dr...
...Nobody is going to burn any bus or threaten anybody...
...The same applies to the police...
...What they are going to do is to arrest the leadership—the so-called agitators or inciters...
...The U.S...
...Verwoerd simply because he is Dr...
...Strictly speaking, the campaign is not of our own choice...
...We have reached the cross roads— we have crossed our historical Rubicon —Izwe Lethu...
...The fact is that all leaders understand that they can bring on a new Dark Ages...
...A gesture to put matters back on the right foot might be to offer the USSR overflight rights in the U.S...
...The Gods of Africa shall pass judgment on such a person...
...We do not want to be tossed about...
...Exactly 7 a.m...
...I request the Senior Police Officer in charge to phone Dr...
...Our leaders will always be on the spot to tell us what to do...
...Any person who does all these things shall be dealt with by the police of course and we, as an organization, shall further deal with him...
...Arms are designed to maintain peace, just as is arms control...
...In fact an African does not feel that he is himself if he does not feel the weight of the dom pass in his pocket...
...Perhaps the most remarkable was Philip Kgosana, a former student of the University of Cape Town, who led the march of the 30,000...
...is becoming increasingly afraid...
...If there were more faith in men's minds and less in technology, this might be possible...
...But this is irrelevant...
...The people will be told to disperse and go to work...
...We shall win...
...Sons and daughters of Africa—there is a choice before us...
...How long shall we rot physically, spiritually and morallyema Plangeni...
...LET US MARCH...
...If this is true, then each weapon should be thought of in context with the problem of controlling and eventually destroying it...
...Are we still prepared to be half-human beings in our fatherland or are we prepared to be citizens—men and women in a democratic non-racial South Africa...
...Here, for the first time in an American publication, is the text of Mr...
...You go home, sit in your houses and paint the house or dig the garden or even play drafts...
...Nobody is carrying money, knives or any dangerous weapon with himself tomorrow...
...Verwoerd after this meeting and tell him that, "Hey, Okaffele baphambene ngoku...
...This myth—others call it racial superiority, others call it herrenvolkism, others white leadership with justice, or white supremacy...
...We start with continued on page 314 218 because missiles will have to be put on limited rail facilities...
...we are not fighting against the Nationalist Party or the United Party...
...Nobody is going to 314 cut wires or make attempts to cut the railway lines...
...Fear is an action incendiary...
...Nothing cools passion like feasibility...
...In short we are fighting against nobody...
...This brings me to two final points...
...The second point is that armament and disarmament are not opposite sides of the same coin as is frequently supposed...
...we launch...
Vol. 7 • July 1960 • No. 3
