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A comprehensive summary of the apartheid era of south Africa, covering the rise and fall of the apartheid government. Covers the full IEB syllabus of apartheid history

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CivilResistance


Background

Apartheid
·


institutionalized in 1948


National Party
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-


DF Malan in power




Petty
·



apartheid

Not central to NP
-




ideology
-Minor laws




Defiance_ Campaign (1952)
_




Set by ANC
·


up and allies

-


Nelson Mandela ,
Walter Sisala ,
Albert Lathali




Initiated peaceful
·


protest

Inspired by Ghandi
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-Burned passbooks and
ignored curtews



·


NP responded with harsher laws

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Banned ANC

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Mass arrests




SharpevilleMassacre(1960)

Peaceful
·


student protest
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Sowetho

Police fire
·


opened

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Ja killed

188
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wounded




·

Led to
banning of ANC and PAC

Forced to
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go underground


ANC form
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PAC armed
and
wings
·
MK focused on
sabotage and disrapment

No bloodshep
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Wanted to force NP to
negotiate
·
Pogo aimed to launch revolutionary aprising
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Used violent means


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Performed massacres and killed transkei chiefs

, -Apartheid resistancein 1960's


Underground
·

resistance movements under threat

Infiltrated by secret police
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-Leaders imprisoned or in excile




1967 Terrorism Act
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Allowed Secret police to detain without trial indefinately
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Helped shat down apartheid resistance




Bureau State tortured
·

of Security Prisoners

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Forced Prisoners to information
give up




Rivonia Trial_(1964)
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Police
·

raid in 1963 on ANC and MK secret headquarters
ANC leaders arrested charged with
sabotage
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and




Mandela
·

Nelson and others sentenced to prison




Trial
·

increased external pressure and solidarity
Mandela international
figure
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now


·

NY under heavy external pressure




GovernmentControl -




·

Harsher laws

Mass arrests
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State
·

control of media intensified

More
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cencorship

-Less external exposure




Growing
-----Resistance-




South Student
·

African established
Organization in 1968


Strong potential
-




Helped grow
black consciousness movement




National African Students
·

Union of South

Minor resistance

Not a major threat yet

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