Subversive Activities in South Africa
Support for Hertzog Followers MOVEMENT TOWARDS REPUBLIC United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t. Received Friday, 9.40 p.m. CAPETOWN, Oct. 31. Despite the fact that the affairs of the so-called cultural organisation of Ossewabrandwag, meaning “the way of tho ox” have been the subject of court cases and men have been charged with subversive activities, Mr. Maalaa (Nationalist leader) addressing the Capo Nationalist Congress, declared it deserved support, He had concluded an agreement with it stipulating cooperation affecting the supreme interests of Afrikanders. Referring to the prosecutions he said tho members were victims of a base espionage campaign. The Congress cheered when he announced that if the organisation was suppressed it wduld resort to a. campaign of passive disobedience to which he promised full support. It was dis. closed in court that the organisation numbers 160,000. General Hertzog's programme of ths principles for Free State Nationalists outlines a republic achieved on constitutional lines and national unity.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 270, 2 November 1940, Page 7
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