Anti-Cad, noun

/ˈæntiˌkæd/
Forms:
Also Anti-C.A.D.
Origin:
EnglishShow more English prefix anti- against + acronym formed on Coloured Affairs Department.
historical
A committee formed in 1943 (as Anti-CAC) by leading members of the Coloured community who refused to collaborate with the newly-created Coloured Advisory Council. Also attributive. See also Anti-CAC, NEUM.
1949 E. Hellmann Handbk on Race Rel. 517The Non-European Unity Movement..draws most of its support from the Coloured community, including the Anti-C.A.D. movement (i.e., Anti-Coloured Advisory Council: their slogan being ‘Anti-Coloured Affairs Department’).
1952 ‘Kaapenaar’ in Drum Dec. 10He is said to be the real brains behind the Anti-Cad and Unity Movements.
1953 Drum Oct. 14The Anti-C.A.D. is dead because it is, in essence, a negative body pledged to a policy of boycott and political non-collaboration.
1971 Rand Daily Mail 19 Feb.The Unity Movement..was formed in 1943 by the merging of the two other Non-White radical groups, the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department Movement (Anti-C.A.D.) and the All African Convention.
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 396The Anti-Cad group, with its broader view of the liberation struggle, did attain greater unity with African freedom groups.
1990 Staffrider Vol.9 No.1, 10The New Unity Association was a breakaway group of the United Movement, itself a splinter group of the All United Alliance, a sub-committee of the Anti-Cad.
A committee formed in 1943 (as Anti-CAC) by leading members of the Coloured community who refused to collaborate with the newly-created Coloured Advisory Council. Also attributive.
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