Languages of Gibraltar were 326 people of Spanish nationality in Gibraltar, and a large number of ""Frontier Workers"" who commute there for work. Owing to its close proximity to Morocco and Algeria, the Berber language and Maghrebi Arabic are spoken by the Moroccan and other North African minorities in the city. In 2001, there were 961 Moroccans in Gibraltar. Hindi and Sindhi is also spoken by the Indian community of Gibraltar. Maltese, a language which was widely used in Gibraltar up until the late 19th century, and is still spoken by some families of Maltese descent. Similarly, Genoese was spoken in Catalan Bay
South African Congress of Democrats as a way to put its views directly to the white public. Moreover, as Nelson Mandela wrote, "The COD served an important symbolic function for Africans; blacks who had come into the struggle because they were anti-white discovered that there were indeed whites of goodwill who treated Africans as equal." Though COD was not itself a communist organization, many members of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) joined the COD. COD never had more than 700 members and was based mainly in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Members of COD included: South African Congress of Democrats The South African Congress