The Success Of Resistance Flashcards
Success of Defiance campaign
Effectiveness of non racial co operation
Increased ANC membership
World wide attention against SA racial policy
UN commission created
Lots of participation (8000 arrested)
Showed govt people were willing to protest
Defiance Campaign unsuccessful
Didn’t overturn apartheid regulation
Anti pass law campaigns
Pass laws to control movement
Native abolition of Passes act- reference book
Women’s anti pass march on Pretoria 1956
PAC 1960
Women’s anti pass march, Pretoria date
1956
Success of women’s anti pass march
Defied stereotype of women as politically inept
Multi racial
Media attention
Failure of women’s anti pass march
Petitions ignored
PAC anti pass march
1960
Call to leave passes at home
Success of the 1960 PAC march against pass laws
Resulted in violent sharpeville, police kill 69 people and injure 180
Govt receive global condemnation
More militant ANC/ PAC
Failure of PAC 1960 anti pass law protest
Protest intended violence?
State of emergency banned political meetings
Within a month both PAC and ANC banned
Freedom charter
1955
Culminated statement of essential principles of SA congress Alliance- ANC sent volunteers to get demands
50,000 volunteers
Success of Freedom Charter
Referred to and spurred on by other campaigns
Galvanised people of SA to stand up for freedom
Outline of what BSAs lacked
Didn’t directly bring about change
Alexandra Bus Boycott
1957
As a result of 1950 Group Areas Act restrictions
Bus companies increase fares despite govt funding so township of Alexandra launch bus boycott
Success of Alexandra bus boycott
Multi racial groups
Succeed in passing a bill which meant could ride buses at old fare of 4d
Economic and political victory
Protest against national govt could be successful
Defiance campaign
1952
First mass, multi racial political mobilisation
ANC, SAIC, CPC
