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South Africa became a unified state within the British empire -
The mission was to unite africans and to secure their right to vote -
The ANC Youth League writes and publishes its manifesto -
The national party wins the 1948 general election -
No mixed marriages -
The ANC adopts the ANC Youth League’s Manifesto -
To segregate black and white. Divided the lands in which black and white resided into distinct residential zones. -
The ANC, SACP, ACPO co-ordinate a May Day strike. The police opened fire on the protesters killing 19 and wounding 30 people -
Colored people had to carry passbooks with them -
The ANC Defiance Campaign of 1952 was the largest scale non-violent resistance ever seen in South Africa. -
The freedom Charter united people of all racial -
The Congress of the People was held over two days in a field in kliptown, just outside Johannesburg. -
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. -
A group of radicalized activists split away from the ANC to form the PAC. -
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. -
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. -
UN Resolution 1761 encourages members "separately or collectively, in
conformity with the charter" to break trade and diplomatic relations
with South Africa -
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 -
The African Resistance Movement (ARM) was a militant anti-apartheid resistance movement, which operated in South Africa during the early and mid-1960s.