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and misery under which they live. This black lackey of British imperialism tries his best to make out that the British are not responsible for this sad state of affairs of the natives. That only the Hertzog Government is responsible. He forgets however to mention that the Hertzog Government is nothing out the agent of British imperialism in South Africa.

Now we in South Africa have taken the activities of too many of these petit-bourgeois Negro reformists to be so openly treacherous that we have failed to expose them to the masses of toiling Negro workers, who may be still under illusions as to the true character of some of their "big Bantu leaders". We must confess that this mistake flows out of our general underestimation of the role of these "good-by" reformists. This in spite of the fact that these reactionaries are constantly betraying the struggles of the masses. This mistake needs to be remedied.

Professor D.D.T. Jabavu, B.A. etc. (London) is one of the "big leaders of our race". He is a "highly educated and cultured gentleman", professor of Bantu languages at the only Negro College in South Africa, "our representative" at a host of international conferences, in Palestine, Jerusalem etc., missionaries and otherwise, President of the S.A. Native Farmers Association, S.A. native Teacher Federation, the S.A. Non-European Conference etc. Author of many weightly books (in the physical as well as moral sense) dealing with the so-called native Question, the best known of which is the "Black Problem". He wields a tremendous influence among the Negro Youth and petit-bourgeois intellectuals and through them his influence penetrates further into the masses.

However, we are only interested in him now as the president of the Non-European conference, a body which unites all the "good-boy reformists" of South Africa. Under the pressure of the economic and agrarian crisis, and the imperialists offensive, the radicalization of the toiling masses has grown tremendously. In the place of petitions and humble appeals to the Government, the toiling masses have to an ever-increasing extent resorted to direct action. The Communists and other revolutionary elements, in the face of the most virulent and lying slanders of the "good boys" headed by Jabavu and another professor by the name of Thaele are increasing their influence and organization, among the workers and peasants. On the other hand, the reformists are not gaining any "reforms" with which to delude the masses. The Hertzog Government has met their pitiful appeals with a deaf ear. Anti-native legislation is gaining in volume. The Hertzog Native Bills, Pirow's native Service (read slave) Contract Bill, Jansens's Pass Law for Native women, Creswell's Civilized Labour Policy etc. - are all directed towards the perpetuation of the enslavement of the Natives of South Africa to British and Boer imperialism. Too cowardly to call upon the masses to revolt against this increasing flood of repression, on the one hand, and frightened by the growing revolutionary demonstrations against the pass laws and other infernal laws of the S.A. Government during 1929 and especially in December 1930, on the other hand, the Non-European Conference headed by Jabavu hastened to meet in January 1931 to deal mainly with the question of the pass laws and the movement against them. We must emphasise that there is no other single law in the whole oppressive regime of the South Africa against which there is so much common hatred of all the Negroes high and low, -rich and poor as the pass laws. In this Conference all the leading reformist organizations and leaders were represented, united through fear of activity in relation to the mass movements led by the communists and other revolutionary elements. The thing that most kept this heterogeneous mass of selfseeking politicians together, is their common hatred, for the communists who were setting too hot a pace for our reactionary "friends".

In view of the response of the masses to the call of the communists and other revolutionaries for mass action against the passes and Hertzog's native Bills, the reformists did not had the guts to openly oppose direct action. Rather a lot of "left" phase-mongering and hollow threats were indulged in by the Motes and Kadalies. Professor Jabavu cunningly encouraged this, of course, always taking care that the main fire of the criticism was directed against the Boer Government as the "villain of the piece", his British imperialist masters being held up as the "friends" of the natives who did not agree with the policy of Hetzog. Therefore, the native must appeal to the British people. Through this manoeuvre it was decided to send a deputation to England to carry out this appeal. The reactionary, Jabavu, is now doing this work. However this is not all.

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[[caption]] Professor Jabavu [[/caption]]

It was necessary to show the toiling masses of Negro workers who had taken action on Dingaan's Day that their action was justified, but at the same time something had to be done to kill the campaign of the Communists who were urging further and wider action against these laws. Therefore, the Conference, with a lot of demagogy passed a resolution for the burning of the passes, not immediately but in 1934, when all "the peaceful channels for the solution of this important question had been tried". This most "revolutionary decision" of all arch-reactionaries of Negro reformism in South Africa received the widest publicity in the bourgeois press and was approved of by all sections of the capitalists - Boer as well as the British. The leaders "had vindicated their honesty as true fighters for Bantu freedom" wrote the capitalist oppressors. The same bourgeois press that boycotted the decisions of the October 1930 Anti-Pass Congress which laid down the campaign that led to the now historic events of Dingaan's Day 1930 could see clearly that the Non-European Conference was their best friend and therefore needed and deserved their support in the treacherous campaign to deceive the masses. Confusion and hesitation become wide spread. Dingaan's Day of 1931 did not show the revolutionary fire of 1929 and 1930. This has brought rejoicing in the camp of the reactionaries. But we shall expose these arch-traitors. We have done it before. Thaele, the leader of the Cape African Congress knows it, and Jabavu will learn as soom as he comes back, that the Negro toiling masses are not the fools that he and his friends think that they are. It is not the first time that these traitors have sold the masses out in this manner to their European masters.

How many deputations have not been sent to England already under the same auspices? The Negro workers of South Africa will remember that in 1913 in order to misdirect the protest and indignation of the masses against the Natives' Land Act of 1913 which expropriated whole districts of native farmers of the means of existence, these same reactionaries sent a deputation to see

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