Sailor Malan – Champion of the Cape

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Apr 20, 2011 View Comments CapeParty

In 1953, Adolph ‘Sailor’ Malan, launched the largest protests ever waged against the Apartheid government. Over 250 000 members formed what was called the “Torch Commandos”. They marched at night, guided by the light of torch-fire to protest against the Apartheid governments discriminative and oppressive policies. The Torch Commando’s demanded an end to the NP’s race-based policies and that voting rights be returned to Cape coloureds. In Malan’s own words, the Torch Commando’s were “established to oppose the police state, abuse of state power, censorship, racism, the removal of the Coloured vote and other oppressive manifestations of the creeping fascism of the National Party regime”

‘Sailor’ Malan was born in Wellington on the 3rd of October, 1910. He died 17 September 1963.


  • Allthingsnatural

    Why is this information not included in school/university curriculums? It completely changes the generally accepted opinion that the multiracial population, especially the whites, did not fight for the rights of the Coloureds. The Torch Commando was a fore runner of the free thinking and freedom fighting Cape people. Makes one proud.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pventer1 Pieter Venter

    It is pretty obvious isnt it? It is not in school because the ANC don’t want it in school.

  • Big 6

    Pieter Venter u r racist
     

  • Anonymous

    Big 6: the word ‘racist’ has become an often misused and defeatist slander in order to shut down meaningful and open debate. Considering your other comments on this website, which all show a clear bias, it seems that race is a category that you are most fixated on.

    It is true that the Cape’s long history is not being taught in schools and this has coincided with ANC rule, it is a fair deduction to make that it is because the ANC would prefer that we were not aware of it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pventer1 Pieter Venter

    Yeah must be. I support Sailor Malan who have fought against Racism and because of that I am a racist? Use that brain of yours please…

  • Eli Jikelele

    If you had used your own brain, you would have figutred out that successive Nationalist Party governments ensured that all “subversive” historical facts were banned from all curricula.

  • KaapvirdieKaapenaars

    Im tired of Corruption, unemployment,
    Lets get rid of South Africa and all its negativity!
    Join the Cape Independence Movement
    http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=E958DE89894C

  • Gerhard Erasmus

    The current ANC will definately not support any information about whites in the past who were against the Apartheid regime. Their goal is to eliminate the whites, then the coloureds, then Afrikaans (the Griekwas?) then the old fights will go big with the Xhosas and Zulus fighting each other….. All South Africans will loose, that’s for sure. I hope this endless demands and breaking down will stop, how big did the list of bancrupcies grow, due to companies that can’t take this horrid burden anymore? When will the building up process ever start again?
    I hope for the people of the Cape to take the lead, showing the others how to do it, before getting dragged down with that mostly northern and eastern mob.

  • Roger Hendry

    I am giving a talk on “Sailor’ Malan – can anyone give me contact details for his son Jonathan, or his daughter, Valerie?

    Thanks

    Roger Hendry
    rohendry@mweb.co.za

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