Rural resistance Flashcards
Rural resistance succeses
Sekhuhneland (1957-158)
-Burnt their houses (couldn’t be used to house Bantustans)
-Killed 9 government collaborators (political success)
-Gained media attention/publicity (inspire more resistance)
-Men joined ANC (more would want to join–> spread desire for equality+anti-apartheid beliefs)
Rural resistance limitations
-5000 arrested (therefore no more protesting)
-114 awaiting trial for murder
-121 for arson
-289 for less serious offences
-Some leaders were sentenced to death/banished to uninhabited regions
-Resistance was effectively crushed
Freedom charter successes
-Delegates successfully read the charter in a full roaring crowd
-Inspired a new generation of young militants to action that would play a key role by the 1980s
-ANC sent out 50,000 volunteers into townships (public statement, spreading the message)
-3000 delegates attended the meeting (shows the scale and size of support, outline what they want)
Freedom Charter limitations
-156 delegates arrested (including Mandela)
-ANC banned (MASSIVE limitation)
-Freedom Charter seen as act of treason
-Police break up meeting (prevents them progressing)
-Treason Trial (until 1962, can’t spread their messsage
The Pan-Africanist Congress successes
-Established the idea of ‘Africa for the Africans’ (supported by many teachers–> minority rights = priority)
-Education + support for resistance
The Pan-Africanist Congress limitations
-Freedom Charter was too concerned on civil rights for all, rather than Africans
-Africanists forced out of the ANC (not united with what they want)
South African Women protest successes
-20,000 signed a petition (lots of support)
-Federation of South African women set up
-Grassroots protests
-Feminism progress
South African Women protest limiations
-Native Administration Act (permitted the government to banish Africans to remote rural areas
