CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Publication Date: May 25, 1961

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The Communist-dominated National Action Council,
the most active nonwhite nationalist organization in
South Africa, has called for a three-day strike be-
ginning on 29 May. The leader of the movement says
that no violence is planned; tension is rising, how-
ever, in both the white and non-European communities.
The government is steadily increasing its security
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AFRICANS PLANNING GENERAL STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA
The South African Govern-
ment is steadily inzreasing its
security precautions in an ef-
fort to head off nonwhite demon-
strations at the end of this
month. The National Action
Council (NAC), a Communist-
dominated group which gained the
initiative among nonwhite na-
tionalists late in March, has
called a three-day stay-home
strike beginning on 29 May to
protest South Africa's acces-
sion to republic status on 31
May. Nelson Mandela, leader of
the NAC, has denied that demon-
strations are planned during
the strike; he reportedly as-
serted, however, that intimida-
tion would be used to enforce
it in some areas. Tension is
rising in both the white and
the non-European communities,
and even a trivial incident
could provoke a violent out-
break.
The NAC was formed to imple-
ment a strike call which had
been made by the Communist-con-
trolled "all-in"African confer-
ence held in Natal Province
late in March. Mandela, a
probable Communist who had been
under government restriction
orders until just before the
conference, is believed to have
been responsible for much of
the NAC's success in seizing
the initiative from anti-Commu-
nist groups such as the Pan-
Africanist Congress and the
largely white Liberal party.
An able organizer who re-
portedly has ample funds at his
disposal, he seems to have re-
vitalized the "Congress move-
ment," the Communist-dominated
multiracial group which had been
moribund since the banning last
year of the African National,
its principal component. The
NAC reportedly has begun a house-
to-house campaign to drum up
support for the strike call,
and it plans to intensify its
efforts during the coming weekend.
Mandela claims to have the
support of most of the country's
coloreds (persons of mixed blood)
and Indians. These two com-
munities, which are an impor-
tant economic factor in western
Cape Province and Natal re-
spectively, apparently are split
on the question of cooperation
with the Africans. Sentiment
in favor of cooperation seems
to be running stronger than it
did in the outbreaks last year.
Mandela allegedly hopes
violence can be avoided, since
peaceful demonstrations would
increase the NAC's aura of
respectability. He is said to
have admitted, however, that a
fifth of his followers favor
violent action. He believes
that the presence of large
numbers of security forces will
inhibit demonstrations in the
larger cities but that disturb-
ances in the towns are more
likely.
The government has been
conducting a series of police
raids since late April in an
effort to break up the organiza-
tion behind the strike call and
to intimidate the nonwhite pop-
ulation. In mid-May it called
up several units of reserves
and militia, rounded up more
than two thousand Africans on
trivial charges, and banned all
meetings until the end of June,
Foreign Minister Louw told the
American ambassador recently
that the government hopes these
measures will avert an incident
like the one at Sharpeville last
spring; however, he expressed
concern over the security
situation in the country.
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