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Resolution 1598
UN Resolution 1598 condemns apartheid. -
Act of union
South Africa became a unified state within the British empire, combining four British colonies. Black people were also denied the right to vote -
SANNC founded
African National Congress is founded, its main goal was to unite Africans, and gain their right to vote -
ANCYL Manifesto
The ANC Youth League wanted to take more action against racial descrimination. Members include, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo -
NP wins the general election,
National party commissions the Sauer report, which recommends a policy of apartheid -
The ANC Youth League Programme of Action was implemented by the ANC.
It emphasized the rights of African people to self-determination and laid out plans for strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience. -
Suppression of Communism Act
Renamed the Internal Security Act in 1976, was legislation of the national government in apartheid South Africa which formally banned the Communist Party of South -
Stock Limitation Act.
used for legislation in Malaysia and the United Kingdom which relates to limitation of actions. -
May Day Strike (SACP)
Called for a strike on 1 May to protest against the Suppression of Communism Act. The strike led to police violence that caused the death of 18 people across Soweto. -
Separate Representation of Voters Act
The National Party introduced Seperate Representation of Voters Act to enforce racial segregation, they also wanted to remove all non-white people from voting. -
Defiance of Campaign (ANC)
The ANC Defiance Campaign of 1952 was the largest scale non-violent resistance ever seen in South Africa. More than 8,000 people across towns in South Africa went to jail for defying apartheid laws. -
The Criminal Law Amendment Act
which said that anyone even speaking out against the regime would be guilty of ‘incitement’. -
National Protest Day (ANC)
called for a general strike and a day of mourning in protest at the May day murders. -
Freedom Charter Campaign
The Freedom Charter united people of all racial origins in a common struggle to end apartheid and to establish a non-racial democratic state -
Congress of the People
7 000 people from all over the country attended from a wide range of anti-apartheid groups -
The Women's March (FASW)
The Women’s March: 20,000 ANC women marched to the Prime Minister’s office to deliver a petition calling for the abolition of the pass laws. -
The Treason Trial
The Treason Trial was a trial in Johannesburg in which 156 people, including Nelson Mandela, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason in South Africa in 1956. -
Pan- Africanist Congress (PAC) splinters away from the ANC
A group of radicalized activists split away from the ANC to form the PAC. They felt that the focus of the ANC was being lost through its compromises with non-Black organizations and that it was time to pursue a more vigorous “Africanist” campaign -
Sharpeville Massacre
During a PAC demonstration against pass books in Sharpeville, the police opened fire, killing 69 black protestors. In March of 1960, 20,000 PAC-mobilized protesters left their homes without their passes and gathered in Sharpeville -
Winds of Change, Resolution of 1958
speech was an address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town. -
Resolution of 1971
UN Resolution 1761 encourages members "separately or collectively, in conformity with the charter" to break trade and diplomatic relations with South Africa. -
The Rivonia Trial and Mandela’s “I Am Prepared to Die” speech
In arguably the most profound moment, Nelson Mandela renounced his chance to be cross-examined in favour of a speech from the dock in which he condemned the court and the laws he was charged with breaking as being illegitimate -
Formation of the African Resistance Movement. Bombing of Jonhannesburg station by Frederick John Harris
Was a group made up largely by white students who had been part of the National Union of South African Students -
Rivonia trial mandela leaders
Mandela and other leaders of the
MK were given life sentences and sent to Robben Island