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- 1933 - 1951 (Creation)
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Correspondents Sir G. Albu (Chairman), J.R. Altman, H. Britten, Coloured Advisory Council, Coloured and European Council of South Africa, G.W. Crowe, A.J.B. Desmore, J.E. Fillis (Asst. Sec.), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, G.W. Kearns, Kliptown Coloured Residents Association, C.S. Koopman, Legal Aid Bureau, W. Mc Ewan (Sec.), Rev. J. Mullineux. Officers and Coloured Ex-Servicemen's Association, A.L. Saffery, G.Z. Sallie (Sec. , Transvaal Cape Malay Association), B.C. Samuels. (Sec. , Johannesburg & District Cape Coloured Welfare Society), S. Solomon South African Coloured Mine Workers Union.
Subjects : Formation of the Council 1935, organisation and meetings, decline during the war and attempt to revive it in 1945. Also the following specific issues.
1933.
Coloured-European Conference, Cape Town.
1936.
Position of Coloureds in urban areas.
Facilities offered Coloureds by the Legal Aid Bureau.
1939.
Opposition to segregation by the Council.
Report of the Commission of enquiry re the Cape Coloured Population.
Representation on the Committee of the Transvaal Carnegie Non-European Library.
Possibility of a Federation of Coloured Organisations.
1940.
Proposal to ease Coloured unemployment by their being employed by Johannesburg municipality.
Marriage laws of the Transvaal in as far as they affect Coloureds.
1943.
Report of the Coloured Affairs Committee of the Johannesburg Diocesan Commission on The Church and the Nation".
Poor conditions in Kliptown Coloured School.
Formation of the Coloured Advisory Council.
Victimisation by the police of Cape Coloureds living in Stirtonville Location.
Classification of Coloured school-children.
Non-European bus services.
Establishment of a Coloured school at Noordgesig.
1944.
Extension of the Cape franchise to Transvaal and.
Use of Coloureds in the mining industry.
Lack of telephone facilities in Coronationville.
Junior Cape Corps for Coloureds.
Training courses for Coloured teachers.
Request for Coloured teachers to be released from the forces.
Anomalies of liquor law affecting Coloureds and Indians in the Transvaal.
Deteriorating relationship between Blacks and Coloureds.
1945.
Formation of the Johannesburg and District Cape Coloured Social Welfare Society.
Dislike of the Coloured Advisory Council.
Need for a school at Grasmere.
1946.
Representation on the Johannesburg Coloured Juvenile Advisory Board.
Bursaries for Coloured students.