topic 2 Flashcards
1960 commonwealth visit
February - MacMillan Winds of Change speech
when was the Sharpevile Massacre
March 1960
arrests after Sharpeville
10,000 arrested including Mandela and other ANC leaders
Unlawful Organisation Act - Date and effect
1960 - PAC and ANC declared ilelgal
when was Verwoerd Shot
1960 April
Referendum to leave the Commonwealth
1960 - 52% vote leave
Nobel Peace Prize
1960 - Luthuli wins
growing Afrikaner prosperity
70% Afrikaners in management jobs 1960 vs 40% in 1948
when did the International boycott of SA goods begin
1960
MK - founded and first action
1961- acts of sabotage on Dingaans Day in December
Sabotage Act - when and effect
1962 - carried out the Death Penalty for acts of sabotage
PAC assault 1962
Paarl - hacked 2 young whites to death
1960s backlash on POQO and MK
62 members of POQO and 7 MK hanged
UN action against apartheid 1962
call for a special committee against apartheid - however many western countries refuse to join
when is Mandela arrested
1962 on return from London - Rivonia Trial begins 1963
UN response to Rivonia
1963 - UN call for defendants to be released, 50 British MPs march in protest
Sporting
Suspended from Olympic Games in 1964
FIFA suspends football association of South Africa in 1961
Defence Budget
rises from 44 to 255 million from 1961-66
ANC and ZAPU
alliance with ZAPU fighting white supremacy in Rhodesia 1967
Wankie Campaign
1967 - 50 MKs including Chris Hani attempt to route through Zimbabwe to SA but are destroyed by Rhodesian government
first self-government bantustan
Transkei - 1968
SASO created
1969 - University Strikes begin year after
Stop the Seventy Tour - dates and details
1969 - campaign to stop the SA rugby tour of Britain, hotel pickets, pitch invasions, tour was cancelled and SA expelled from international cricked
how did Botha increase security
State Security Council created in 1971 - Army generals and police chiefs to oversee security
