Further Opposition To Aparatheid

Question 1

Freedom Charter, 1955

Answer 1

• Every man and women shall have the right to toe for every candidate
• All apartheid laws shall be set aside
• All people shall share the nation’s wealth
• The land shall be shared by those who work it
• All shall be equal before the law
• All shall enjoy human rights
• There shall be work and security - trade unions allowed
• Education shall be free

Question 2

Treason Trial - 1956

Answer 2

• Government arrested and charged 156 with high treason, including most of the leaders of the ANC
• Government lawyers tried to prove that the freedom charter was communist and that the accused were plotting violent revolution
• All accused were eventually released and opposition weakened due to the longevity of the case

Question 3

Female opposition to apartheid

Answer 3

• 1955 - Anti-pass law demonstrations announced that black women would have to carry pass books and there were huge protests with men and women, one of them being Walter Sisulu’s wife
• Black Sash Organisation - A group of white women founded this in 1955 to git the National Party’s end to end Coloured voting rights
• Winnie Mandela, Nelson’s second wife kept the flag of restiacen flying high

Question 4

ANC and PAC

Answer 4

• African National Congress - aimed to abolish apartheid and equal rights for all, more dominant
• Pan Africanist Congress (split from ANC) - Militant resistance and focused on the freedom of blacks