Transvaal Indian Congress

The TIC was generally a moderate organisation in its formative years. It was active in passive resistance campaigns organised by Mahatma Gandhi in 1908 and 1913, but at other times relied largely, like the NIC, on the moderate methods of petitions and deputations to authorities. Dadoo was elected as TIC president in 1946, the year after his progressive counterpart in Natal, Monty Naicker, took office. == Revival ==

The first signs of the TIC's revival were in 1981, when a community meeting in Lenasia agreed to form the Transvaal Anti-South African Indian Council Committee to advocate boycotts of elections to the South African Indian Council, a government advisory body. Meanwhile, the TIC was formally relaunched in May 1983. Essop Jassat was appointed president, with Ram Saloojee as his deputy. Jassat was replaced by Cassim Saloojee at the next elective conference in August 1988. The TIC was a founding affiliate of the UDF and was a prominent player in the campaign to boycott the 1984 elections and the new Tricameral Parliament, which purported to represent Indians through the House of Delegates. Although the TIC was represented at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa in 1991, it did not restructure itself as a political party during South Africa's democratic transition. Instead, many leaders and members joined the African National Congress (ANC), and the TIC again fell into dormancy from around the time of the first post-apartheid elections in 1994. Jassat, Kathrada, Ram Saloojee, and Cassim Saloojee were among the TIC stalwarts who went on to represent the ANC in Parliament. == References ==