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.

Correspondents : L. Behu, D.G. Bettison, J. Courlander (See.) R.H. Godlo, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Rev. J. Makaluza, D.J. Peacock (Sec.), H.C. Peacock (Sec.), L. Prince, E. Reifenberg (Sec.), A.L. Saffery, F.R. Samuels, C.E. Stidolph, O.D. Wollheim (Sec) - .

Subjects : Organisation and activities of the Joint Council, the formation of a Coloured-European Joint Council in 1933 and attempt to revive it in 1936 and the following specific issues.

1930.

How to stop the drift of Blacks to the towns.

1931.

Effects of higher wages on the Black work force.

Reduction of Black railway workers' wages.

1932.

Education.

1933.

Criminal action for non-payment of rent.

Proposed library for Blacks.

1934.

Need to improve the locations.

Poll tax.

Statistics of female convictions for contravening the curfew.

Abolition of quit-rents.

1937.

Wage Board visit to East London.

1938.

Change of name of Joint Council to avoid using "Natives".

1940.

Regional conference of Joint Councils at Queenstown.

1951.

Reduction of Coloured-European Joint Council to 12 members.

1954.

Social welfare research : Border and Transkei.

1955.

Lack of African participation in the Joint Council.

Correspondents J.D. Rheinallt Jones, R.G. Mbelle, Dr. S.M. Molema, W.B. Ngakane, Rev. M. Nye ;K.P. Kalemane (Sec.).

Subject Unsuccessful efforts to found a Council from 1943-1950.

Correspondents : E. Bowman (Sec.), Rev. C. Crabtree, Rev. A.C Enson, E.M. Hartley (Sec.), Rev. C.K. Hodges, Rev. P. Hoffend (Sec.), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Bishop S.W. Lavis, C.H. Malcomess S.D. Matshikiza (Sec.), A.L. Saffery, M.T. Soga W.S. Worsfold (Sec.).

Subjects : Formation of the Joint Council in 1928, work and activities until its ending in L94H an and attempt to revive in 1951. Also the following specific issues.

1930.

Complaints from Blacks re unemployment, poll tax, disfranchisement, transport.

Wages and cost of living.

Reduction in pensions of Coloureds.

1931.

Library for Non-Europeans.

1932.

Grants for Black education ; need to revise.

Reaction to the Native Service Contract Bill.

Self-help scheme for building location louses.

1934.

Housing scheme for the location.

Death-bed marries.

Resolutions by the Joint Council to the Cape Coloured Commission.

Teachers salaries.

Poll tax exemption.

1935.

Committee on Natives in Urban Areas.

Native Bills.

Free milk for Black children.

1940.

Conference of Cape Border and Transkeian Joint Councils at Queenstown.

Correspondents Bishop W.J. Carey, D. Cohen (Sec.), A.C. Elliott (Vice-Chairman), Rev. T.S. Gibson J.D. Rheinallt Jones, J.G. F. Moult, C. J. Roodman. H. C. Grierson Tuckey (Sec.).

Subject! Attempts to form a Council from L923-1926, encouraged by J.D. Rheinallt Jones its activities. decline by 1935 and resuscitation in 1938. Also the following specific issues:

1927.

Resolution against the extension of the 'tot' system to Blacks and Coloureds in the Transvaal and O.F.S.

1928.

Economic conditions of Slacks in industry.

1930.

Proposed amendments to native location regulations.

Statements to the Native Economic Commission on education, labour conditions, emigration from rural areas to the towns and general economic conditions.

1932.

Protest against Native Service Contract Bill.

Unwillingness of Blacks to work in Witwatersrand mines.

1933.

Arrests for tax default.

1934.

burning of huts and expulsions because of arrears of hut tax.

Distress and unrest in Kimberley due to unemployment and hunger.

1935.

Change of name of Council to include 'African' riot 'Bantu'.

1939.

Establishment of a library in the location.

1950.

Possibility of forming a study circle.

Correspondents F.C.E. Baker, H. Britten, J.J.G. Carson (Sec.) O.S. Earp (Sec.), J.S. Rose Innes, A.M. Jabavu J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Rev. D. Martyn (Sec.), W.G. Ngakane, A.L. Saffery, M. Shapiro.

Subjects: Formation of the Native Welfare Society in 1926, its transformation to a Joint council in 1933 and the difficulties experienced leading to failure by 1950. Also the following specific issues.

Visit by J.D. Rheinallt Jones.

Need for health and recreational facilities in the location.

Prosecution of unemployed for debt and request for remission of arrears of poll tax.

Request for Coloureds to be represented on the Council.

Film censorship.

Need to explain the implications of the Representation of Natives Act.

proposal for a community hall far Blacks to include a library.

Failure of Joint Councils due to the feeling of Blacks that the Councils have achieved nothing and have retarded the development of Black leadership.

Regional Conference of Joint councils at Queenstown.

Correspondents Rev. E. Dudley Brown (Chairman), G.C. Clarke, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, R. Kirk (Sec.), H. Nabe (Sec.). W.B. Ngakane.

Subjects: Formation of the Council in 1941, the question of an Advisory Board 1944 and the failure of the Council by 1950 due to the European members being transferred.

Correspondents: Rev. D.P. Dugmore and W.B. Ngakane.

Subject: Possibility of forming a Joint Council.