Submitted by representatives of the African National Congress, Pan= Africanist Congress and South African Coloured Peoples Congress + adopted with acclamation.
This first Congress of the Council of African Organisations, having taken cognizance of the following in London on the 7th Febuary , 1965:l. That the South African State, armed to the teeth, is determined to defend by force of arms the privilege of the white and the imperialist investments in the country, on which these privileges rest; 26 that all illusions of change by constitutional means have been irrevocably shattered by the merciless suppression of all attempts to effect a peaceful changes 36 that the South African masses realize in ever growing numbers that their liberation depends mainly on their own effort, with the aid of their African brothers; Ae that they can in no way rely on Imperialism to change its very nature by urging it to bring about such change as would threaten its financial interests 3 5 that the South African democratic struggle is an inextricable part of the war to free the entire African Continent from Colonial and Imperial ist rule----. Therefore Resolves :a) that the liberatory struggle in South Africa can obtain its objectives of democracy and national independence only by the revolutionary over-throw of the state; b) that in as much as South Africa is the most industrialised country on the Continent, its liberation from the fetters of imperialism and white minority rule, will constitute the great leap forward in the advance of the African peoples as a whole; c) that the Organisation (C.A.0.) establish a fund to aid South African Liberatory movements. in the struggle for freedom and democracy; d) that the C.A.O. and other organisations attending this Congress use their good offices to assist liberation organisations based in Britain and other countries in Europe; e) that the C,A.O. and other organisations attending this Congress organise an Annual Sharpville Day on March 21st to commemorate the militant resistance of the South African people against white supremacy and merciless imperialist exploitation; f) that the C,A.0O,. and other organisations attending this Congress seriously consider the military presense of free Africa in those independent African States, which have common borders with South Africa, in order to safeguard their sovereignty and offer protection to the liberatory forces based in those border territories; g) that the C.A.0O. and other organisations attending this Congress demand that the British Government afford the necessary protection to South African refugees in the British Protectorates adjoining South Africa,