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This organization was founded by white women in 1955 to protest government policies and defend human rights.
Black Sash
This is the name of the meeting held in 1955 where the Freedom Charter was unanimously adopted.
Congress of the People
This act, introduced in 1948, legalized racism in South Africa
Apartheid
What was the Defiance Campaign?
A resistance movement aimed at purposefully breaking segregationist laws in order to fill jails, and put an end to the racist laws.
What was the Programme of Action?
This was a resistance strategy that encouraged people to protest, boycott, and strike in order to challenge the apartheid regime.
When was the Defiance Campaign implemented?
1952.
What was the May Day strike?
A strike organised to protest unfair wages, the banning of communist leaders, and government plans to ban the CPSA.
What does the PAC stand for?
Pan Africanist Congress
When was the Congress of the People held?
1953.
Where was the Freedom Charter signed?
Kliptown, Soweto.
What was the Congress of the People?
What date (day, month and year) did over 20 000 women march to the Union Buildings to protest pass laws.
9 August 1956.
Who organised the Congress of the People?
The Congress Alliance.
What was the Freedom Charter and when was it adopted?
It was a policy document calling for equality between all people in South Africa, and it was established in Kliptown, Soweto, in 1955.
Which trial, which lasted for over four years, involved 156 people?
The Treason Trial
Before 1948, the ANC and other groups like the SANNC and APO used this method of resistance to protest segregation and the 1913 Land Act.
Legal resistance - signing petitions, sending delegations
The ANC's membership skyrocketed from 7,000 to 100,000 as a result of the success of this campaign.
Defiance Campaign
The ANC's new, more forceful approach to resistance was influenced by this group, which wanted to turn the ANC into a mass movement.
Congress Youth League/ Accept ANC Youth League
Name two majority-white organisations that supported the Defiance Campaign.
Liberal Party and the Congress of Democrats
Name the township in Durban in which women brewed beer and resultantly became involved in clashes with the police.
Cato Manor.
Which FOUR organisations were integral in organising the Programme of Action?
CPSA - COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA
ANC - AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
SAIC - SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN CONGRESS
APO - AFRICAN PEOPLES' ORGANISATION
What is the National Day of Protest and Mourning?
It was a stay-away organised by the ANC to memorialise the 18 people who had died in the May Day strike.
What date was the Suppression of Communism Act passed by the apartheid regime?
1950
Name the minister who refused to meet the 20 000 women peacefully protesting at the Union Buildings.
JG Strijdom
Name the two militant organisations that emerged after the Sharpeville Massacre.
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and POQO