COMMUNISTS ON TRIAL
SEDITION CASE IN SOUTH AFRICA NATIVE MINE WORKERS’ STRIKE LONDON, January 20. “Eight of the chief executives of the South African Communist Party appeared in Court to-day charged with sedition following raids on Communist headquarters in South Africa, which were part of an investigation into the strike of 50,000 native mine workers in August, 1946,” says the Cape Town correspondent of the British United Press. “The prosecutor said that this was a story of a bid to gain power for the Communist Party by all means, not excluding the loss of life. The Communist Party had tried to train professional revolutionaries to build up a proletarian army with the ultimate Object of overthrowing the Government and substituting a Communist regime.” The correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency detailed the accused as the national chairman (Mr W. H. Andrews), the native general secretary, a native trade union secretary, Mrs Betty Sacks, editor of the Cape Town newspaper, the “Guardian,” and five other European officials.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25089, 22 January 1947, Page 7
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