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Act of Union
South Africa became a unified state within the British empire -
SANNC founded
The mission was to unite africans and to secure their right to vote -
ANCYL Manifesto
The ANC Youth League writes and publishes its manifesto -
NP wins
The national party wins the 1948 general election -
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages / Immorality Acts
No mixed marriages -
ANCYL programme of action
The ANC adopts the ANC Youth League’s Manifesto -
Group Areas Act passed
To segregate black and white. Divided the lands in which black and white resided into distinct residential zones. -
May Day Strike
The ANC, SACP, ACPO co-ordinate a May Day strike. The police opened fire on the protesters killing 19 and wounding 30 people -
The Pass Laws
Colored people had to carry passbooks with them -
Defiance Campaign of 1952
The ANC Defiance Campaign of 1952 was the largest scale non-violent resistance ever seen in South Africa. -
Freedom Charter campaign (ANC)
The freedom Charter united people of all racial -
Congress of the People
The Congress of the People was held over two days in a field in kliptown, just outside Johannesburg. -
The Women’s March
The Women’s March: 20,000 ANC women marched to the Prime Minister’s office to deliver a petition calling for the abolition of the pass laws. -
Pan-Africanist Congress splinters away from the ANC
A group of radicalized activists split away from the ANC to form the PAC. -
Sharpeville Massacre
incident in the Black township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, South Africa, in which police fired on a crowd of Black people, killing or wounding some 250 of them. -
ANC Develops
Members of both the PAC and ANC felt they had no alternative but to turn to armed resistance. In the ANC, Mandela set up a militant wing called Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) which launched a campaign sabotage against property. -
Resolution 1761
UN Resolution 1761 encourages members "separately or collectively, in
conformity with the charter" to break trade and diplomatic relations
with South Africa -
The rivonia Trial and Mandela's ¨I am prepared to die”speech
In the Rivonia Trial Mr Mandela chose, instead of testifying, to make a speech from the dock and proceeded to hold the court spellbound for more than four hours. His speech, which was made at the beginning of the defence case, ended with the words: “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons -
Formation of the african resistance movement (ARM) bombing of the johannesburg station by frederick john Harris
The African Resistance Movement (ARM) was a militant anti-apartheid resistance movement, which operated in South Africa during the early and mid-1960s.