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Reference code
ZA HPRA AH1092-B-Bc-Bcc-Bcc1-Bcc1.25
Title
Rex v W H Andrews and others
Date(s)
- March 1948 - May 1948 (Creation)
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Charge of sedition by initiating a strike of Black mine employees on the Witwatersrand. The accused include members of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (William Henry Andrews, Moses Monani Kotane, Harry Snitcher, Lucas Phillips, Fred Carneson, Harry Allimothoo Naidoo, Isaac Osher Horvitch and Harold Jack Simons) William John Roberts (member of the Johannesburg District Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa) and Louis Charles Joffe (member of the African Mineworkers Union Fund Raising Committee). The indictment was quashed.
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