ABSTRACT
Com LAGUMA stated that the Communist Party of South Africa had not yet considered the Resolution of the Comintern on South Africa,1 but would do so at its Congress on January 1st. He had, however, received a letter from the Secretary of the Party which indicated that the resolution did not meet with the approval of the Central Committee of the Party. The Central Committee seemed to be afraid that the slogan of an independent native republic as a step towards a peasants and workers republic with full safeguards and rights of all minorities, would antagonise the European section of the working class. They maintain that the European section has the most say in affairs, and that those who drew up the resolution have an insufficient knowledge of the situation in S. Africa, especially ‘the widespread apathy of the native masses’.
