July and 25 September 1930 (Fort Hare address); Abantu-Batho, 9 July 1931.
60 G. M. Pakade, letter to the editor, and S. Ratlou, ‘Tsa Northern Native Association’, Abantu-Batho, 1 May 1930; ‘Notice’, Abantu-Batho, 17 July 1930.
61 S. M. Bennett Ncwana, ‘Political Necessity’, Abantu-Batho, 21 August 1931. He continued, disparaging Khoi and San peoples, claiming a virility and purity for Africans that both the former and white settlers allegedly lacked.
62 Rev. P. Lamula, ‘Umhlangano we Nkatakwa Zulu ema Hashini’, Abantu-Batho, 2 October 1930; e-mail of Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière to the author, 12 June 2011.
63 Mkasibe to editor, ‘Special Accounts’, Abantu-Batho, 15 May 1930. ANC Johannesburg president in the 1920s, he worked as a caretaker and later wrote to Seme’s African Leader (Limb, The ANC’s Early Years: 372–73).
64 ‘African National Congress & Mkasipe’s Surreptitious Pen’, Abantu-Batho, 5 June 1930; Mkasibe, ‘To See Once Is to See Twice’, Abantu-Batho, 19 June 1930; ‘ANC’, Abantu-Batho, 26 June 1930.
65 ‘Kgosi-Kenna’, Tsala ea Batho, 12 December 1914, from Abantu-Batho. King was ‘the popular Native Commissioner of the Pretoria District’ who at the outbreak of war had chaired a meeting at which Congress leaders pledged support to Britain (S. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, ed. B. Willan (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982): 301.
66 ‘Farewell Msindazwe!’, Abantu-Batho, 20 January 1916, Rhodes House Library, Mss. Afr. s.633 Coryndon Papers, box 10: see Part II; ‘Col. Pritchard & the Natives’ and ‘Farewell to Col. Pritchard: Notable Speeches’, Abantu-Batho 6, 13 March 1924, copy in Rhodes House Library, Mss. Afr. s.24 J15.
67 ‘Jansen and Natives’, Abantu-Batho, 11 September 1930.
68 S. M. Makgatho, ‘The Killing of the Israelites: The Union Government and the Aborigines of South Africa’, Abantu-Batho, 16 June 1921; see Part II for the text.
69 ‘When Political Upstarts Legislate’, Abantu-Batho, 19 June 1930.
70 ‘Intelo e Swazini’, Abantu-Batho, repr. in Ilanga, 18 February 1916. I thank Grant Christison for the translation.
71 ‘Our Magistrates’, Imvo, 14 November 1922 noted that Abantu-Batho published a ‘most scathing revelation of the want of sympathy on the part of one of the Transvaal Magistrates in Pietersburg’.
72 ‘Dipping Regulations’, Abantu-Batho, 20 December 1917; also carried in Ilanga, 4 January 1918.
73 ‘Native Annual Conference’, Abantu-Batho, 10 July 1930.
74 ‘Economic Commission’, Abantu-Batho, 10 July 1930; editorial, Abantu-Batho, 14 August 1930.
75 ‘Statement of Chief Grievances Western Native Township Johannesburg’, Abantu-Batho, 17 June 1930.
76 I. B. Moroe, ‘Joint Committee of the Non-European Organisations, Marabastad Location Pretoria’, Abantu-Batho, 17 July 1930. See also Limb, The ANC’s Early Years: 369–70.
77 Clipping from Abantu-Batho, 14 May 1923, Rhodes House Library, Mss. Afr. s.24 J15.
78 ‘The Way of Freedom’, Abantu-Batho, 14 May 1923, Rhodes House Library, Mss. Afr. s.24 J15.
79 Rev. D. W. Alexander, ‘Race’, Abantu-Batho, 2 October 1930.
80 ‘Poor Black Problem’, Abantu-Batho, 22 December 1927, Rhodes House Library, Mss. Afr. s.24 J17; here the paper was reprinting a letter of Karney published in The Rand Daily Mail.
81 ‘African Race and Corporate Responsibility’, Abantu-Batho, 9 October 1930.
82 ‘A Clash Must Come’, Abantu-Batho, February–March 1920.
83 ‘Cry for Better Living’, Abantu-Batho, February–March 1920.
84 Cited in ‘Living on the Proceeds of …’, International, 1 June 1923.
85 Abantu-Batho, 30 November 1917, in ‘Modern Voortrekkers’, International, 15 December 1916; see Part II. A piece from ‘one of the new Johannesburg Native papers’ irately reprinted by Jabavu (‘Disquieting’, Imvo, 17 June 1914) was likely from Abantu-Batho: ‘What is being talked about is the confiscation of lands from the Natives … and you should know … you are losing your life, your children’s inheritance.’
86 ‘The New Bill’, Abantu-Batho, 17 June 1920, JUS 3/127/20.
87 ‘Native Hut Tax Collection by Military Force’, Abantu-Batho, 31 July 1930.
88 ‘Grave Anomalies’, Abantu-Batho, 11 September 1930. Other correspondents at this time included James Mbiko Mtshengu of Bamboo Spruit and J. Mareme Modiselle of the African Club, to name only two.
89 In 1909 he noted he was not going to England to protest the Act of Union, but ‘entirely separate from any political move. I have been advised to keep clear of politics as it would injure my educational work’ (J. Dube to Harriette Colenso, 10 June 1909, Rhodes House Library, Colenso Papers, Mss. Afr. s.1286/2 (a)).
90 ‘Information Wanted’, Abantu-Batho, 18 December 1930.
91 ‘I Refuse to Answer’, Abantu-Batho, 1 April 1915, repr. in Ilanga, 9 April 1915; Christian Express, 1 May 1915: 67; cf. N. Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (Boston; Little, Brown, 1994): 133.
92 ‘Ubotshiwe’, Imvo, 10 October 1917 from Abantu-Batho; Plaatje to Jane Cobden Unwin, 10 July 1917, Jane Cobden Unwin Papers, University of Bristol Library, Special Collections, GB 3 DM 851; my thanks to Brian Willan for the latter, Heather Hughes for translation of the former. The case was dropped after he rejected a request to withdraw charges and ‘prepared an elaborate defence that was likely to bring before the courts these official outrages’.
93 ‘About the Case’, Abantu-Batho, 29 August 1918, JUS 3/127/20.
94 ‘The Case’, Abantu-Batho, 5 September 1918; ‘About the Case’, Abantu-Batho, 12 September 1918, both JUS 3/127/20.
95 ‘Contract’, Abantu-Batho, 24 October 1918, JUS 3/127/20. See also the chapter by Ndlovu and Limb in this volume.
96 ‘Justice at Last’, Abantu-Batho, 28 October 1920, clipping, JUS 3/127/20.
97 ‘Police Boys Charged: Zulus v. Zulus & Shangaans’, Abantu-Batho, February–March 1920.
98 ‘Benoni Loses Appeal’, Abantu-Batho, 24 April 1930.
99 ‘Poll Tax Test Case’, Abantu-Batho, 23 November 1922, Rhodes House Library, Colenso Papers, Mss. s.24 J14. See Part II for the text.
100 Selby Msimang, ‘The Civil Service’, Ilanga, 22 October 1915. Divorces also were carried: ‘Summons’, Abantu-Batho, 11 October 1923; ‘Order for Restitution of Conjugal Rights’, Abantu-Batho, 9 July 1931.
101 ‘Magistrate’s Judgement’, Abantu-Batho, 14 January 1918, clipping in GNLB 192.
102 J. Royeppen, ‘South African Justice’, Abantu-Batho, 26 June 1930.
103 ‘Johannesburg Municipality to Pay a Native Tenant Damages’, Abantu-Batho, 16 April 1931.
104 ‘Danger Signals for the White Farmers’, Abantu-Batho, 9 April 1931.
105 P. Rich, ‘The Origins of Apartheid Ideology: The Case of Ernest Stubbs and Transvaal Native Administration, c.1902–1932’, African Affairs 79(315), 1980: 187.
106 P. Bonner, ‘Kgatla Conspiracies, Pedi Plots: African Nationalist Politics in the Transvaal in the “Dead” Decade of the 1930s’, seminar paper, University of KwaZulu-Natal History Department, 2002; Limb, The ANC’s Early Years: 450.
107 ‘Where is the Bhunga?’, Abantu-Batho, 3 July 1930.
108 ‘Transvaal Native Congress’, Abantu-Batho, 24 April 1919; ‘Editorial Notes’, Abantu-Batho, 20 January 1916;