resistance to apartheid

  • act of Union

    act of Union
    South Africa becomes a unified states within the British Empire
  • The SANNC (later the ANC) is founded

    The SANNC (later the  ANC) is founded
    the vision was to unite Africans and to secure their right to vote
  • ANCYL Manifesto

    ANCYL Manifesto
    The And Youth League writes and published its manifesto
  • NP wins

    NP wins
    the National Party wins the 1948 general election
  • ANCYL Programme of Action

    ANCYL Programme of Action
    The ANC adopts the ANC bought leagues manifesto, aka the program of action, as the official platform
  • The ANC youth League programme of action was implemented by ANC

    The ANC youth League programme of action was implemented by ANC
    In 1949 Nelson Mandela and other young nationalists started ANC which gave them rights to african people
  • May day strike

    May day strike
    ANC, SACP, ACPO co-ordinate a strike and police killed 19 people wounding 30
  • National day of protest

    National day of protest
    The protest was supported by South african indian congress
  • Defiance Campaign

    Defiance Campaign
    The ANC were doing nonviolent resistance in south african which made the group grow from 7k to 100k which cause the government to make the criminal law.
  • Freedom Charter campaign (ANC)

    Freedom Charter campaign (ANC)
    All racial origins struggled and apartheid and to established a non-racial democratic state
  • Congress of the People

    Congress of the People
    The congress of the people had 7k anti-apartheid groups gathered and sign charters which lead to 156 being arrested by police surronding the meeting
  • The women´s March (FASW)

    The women´s March (FASW)
    20k Women marched to the prime minister´s office to deliver a petition calling for the abolition of the passed laws
  • The treason Trials

    The treason Trials
    The police arrested 156 congress leaders
  • Pan- Africanist Congress (PAC) splinters away from the ANC

    A group of the ANC split up to form the PAC when supporters that weren't black join to secure their black power in africa
  • Sharpeville Massacre

    Sharpeville Massacre
    PAC was demonstrating against pass books in sharpeville which made the police killing 69 protestors and injuring 186 people