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act of Union
South Africa becomes a unified states within the British Empire -
The SANNC (later the ANC) is founded
the vision was to unite Africans and to secure their right to vote -
ANCYL Manifesto
The And Youth League writes and published its manifesto -
NP wins
the National Party wins the 1948 general election -
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
In 1949 Nelson Mandela and other young nationalists started ANC which gave them rights to african people -
May day strike
ANC, SACP, ACPO co-ordinate a strike and police killed 19 people wounding 30 -
National day of protest
The protest was supported by South african indian congress -
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)
All racial origins struggled and apartheid and to established a non-racial democratic state -
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)
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 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
PAC was demonstrating against pass books in sharpeville which made the police killing 69 protestors and injuring 186 people