ABSTRACT
It was the first day of August 1929. Two Communists, Ralph Levy and Fanny Klenerman, were speaking outside the Johannesburg City Hall addressing a large crowd of whites. Police spies were taking notes. Sidney showed up, ‘at the head of a band of 150 natives who were carrying a red banner’. He was back in town and in fighting spirit. News of his Transkei journey and court battles had preceded him. ‘He spoke on the usual Communist lines’, reported one of the spies, ‘and said the workers should put a stop to war by refusing to fight’. 1
