Sunday will mark the 61st anniversary of the Sharpeville Masscare. But it was on this day in 1960, 3 days before the fateful event that the PAC published a circular by its president Robert Sobukwe. It read: This is the call thr African people have been waiting for. It has come! 
On Monday the 21st of March 1960 we launch our POSITIVE, DECISIVE CAMPAIGN against PASS LAWS in this country. Our Demands:
1) We demand that the Pass Laws be totally abolished
2) We demand a minimum wage established by the Government legislation of £35 per month or £8. 34 per
1) We demand that the Pass Laws be totally abolished
2) We demand a minimum wage established by the Government legislation of £35 per month or £8. 34 per
week which must be paid throughout the country
3) We demand a guarantee that the leaders will not be victimised by the local authorities or by the Government as a result of the African people's positive action
4) We demand a guarantee that no worker shall be dismissed as a result
3) We demand a guarantee that the leaders will not be victimised by the local authorities or by the Government as a result of the African people's positive action
4) We demand a guarantee that no worker shall be dismissed as a result
of this campaign
These are our orders and if we must win, these orders must be faithfully obeyed:
In every city, town and village the men must leave their passes at home on Monday the 21st of March 1960
Under the leadership of the Pan Africanist Congress the men will move to
These are our orders and if we must win, these orders must be faithfully obeyed:
In every city, town and village the men must leave their passes at home on Monday the 21st of March 1960
Under the leadership of the Pan Africanist Congress the men will move to
the chosen police station and there surrender themselves. The leader will tell the police, "We all do not have passes. We will not carry passes again. Millions of our people are arrested under the pass laws. So you had better arrest us all. Now."
If you are stopped by police on the way and they demand Passes, surrender there and then for arrest. If ONE man is arrested for having a pass, you will ALL stop there and then. The police you do not have passes either. Demand that they arrest you all.
All men will go to jail under the slogan: NO BAIL. NO DEFENSE. NO FINE. The women will be assigned their historic role, but in the first phase of the struggle they must make sure that all men go to jail.
DURATION OF THE CAMPAIGN:
Nobody will call this campaign off except the President of the Pan Africanist Congress who will do so at the meetings of the people. Do not allow any newspaper, circular letter, or government official to mislead you.
Nobody will call this campaign off except the President of the Pan Africanist Congress who will do so at the meetings of the people. Do not allow any newspaper, circular letter, or government official to mislead you.
So long as the Campaign is on, nobody will go to work. Let us stick together, the people and their leaders. It is now time for SERVICE, SACRIFICE. That is the spirit in which we go into action.
FREEDOM FROM PASS LAWS, SLAVE WAGES ETC ETC NOW.
GOD SAVE AFRIKA AND HER PEOPLE.
FREEDOM FROM PASS LAWS, SLAVE WAGES ETC ETC NOW.
GOD SAVE AFRIKA AND HER PEOPLE.
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