apartheid 48-61 Flashcards
african population growth
had major social and political implications
D.F Malan
usually characterised as a man concerned most with Afrikaner identity and culture
apartheid came to mean
the ‘maintenance and protection’ of Afrikanerdom, white power and the white race
under the Group Areas Act
an estimated 600,000 were removed in three decades from Cape Town and Durban
Programme of Action
ANC youth league
aimed to create a mass movement through protests, boycotts and passive resistance
Congress movement
due to the Communist Party being banned in 1950, they out their weight behind the mass action of the congress movement
congress movement successes
evolved through separate racial groupings into the most effective national non-racial leadership in the early 1950s
Defiance Campaign
of 1952
8000 were arrested
it gave the congress movement a sharper public profile
results of defiance campaign
the membership of the congress movement when from 5,000 to 100,000
regional committees succeeded in working better together
Freedom Charter
1955
this committed the congress movement to a non-racial democracy, equal opportunities for all and some redistribution of wealth