Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 1088

South Africa, 1961. Fourteen Hundred Delegates From South Africa Went To Maritzburg, Where They Sounded A New And Powerful Call For Unity – Mandela Talks. The odds were all against success, and yet the outcome was a triumph, an indication of a new spirit of resolve which has emerged among the African people. Few meetings can have been preceded by so many unfavourable omens as the All-In Africa Conference at Maritzburg.