Cory Library and Historical Archives · Why a "Coloured" National Convention

Why a "Coloured" National Convention

Item

Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee, “Why a "Coloured" National Convention”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/13916

Title: Why a "Coloured" National Convention
Creator: Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee
Description: We would like to stress at the outset that we are not organising this Convention in order to “gang up” with persons of other race-groups against others. Some people say that we should have nothing to do with Africans, because we have nothing in common with them. This is utter folly. We could mention several important factors which we do have in common with them. There is our common humanity, there is our common South Africanism, there is a great deal of common discrimination under South African laws, and there is, in regard to a great and growing number of Africans, a common Western view of life. We would like to see developed a wider South Africanism, capable of embracing all the peoples of this country, whatever their race, colour or creed. Let nobody say that because we are organising a Convention as a Coloured group, we are recognising and accepting the fact that we are a separate groun, or that we wish to be so regarded in the laws of the land. We repeat that we are a separate group by exclusion, by discrimination, by virtue of laws which we regard as wrong. And it is to destroy this false, separate identity that we are dedicating ourselves in this Convention.
Subject: Coloured National Convention; Colored people (South Africa); Civil rights -- South Africa; Apartheid -- South Africa; South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century; South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994; Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
Format: pdf
Date Issued: 1961-06
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31211
Location - Physical Location: Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University
Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator: MS 10 800
Extent: 16 pages
Rights Holder: Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee
useGuidelines: In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za

Item sets: Coloured National Convention Collection, Malmesbury 1961; The People versus the State

Media: vital_23925+SOURCE1+SOURCE1.0.pdf

Hierarchies: Apartheid, the Struggle and the People
Anti-Apartheid Movement and Acts of Defiance (7 items)
Apartheid - Legal Frameworks (2 items)
Forced Removals and Evictions (104 items)
Klipfontein & Glenmore, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1979) (84 items)
Oxton and Zweledinga, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1980) (20 items)
The People versus the State (12 items)

New Tags

Position: 0 (0 views)