CIVIL RESISTANCE IN SA
1970s - 1980s
Important acronyms
1. BC = Black Consciousness
2. BPC = black people's convention
3. BCM = black consciousness movement
4. SASO = south african students organisation
5. SCM = students christian movement
6. MDM = mass democratic movement
7. UDF = united democratic front
8. MK = Mkhonto weSizwe
9. COSATU = congress of South African trade unions
10.NUM = national union of mineworkers
11. ECC = end conscription campaign
12. AZAPO = azanian peoples organisation
13. SASM = south african students movement
Key figures
1. Steve Biko = founder of BCM and SASO
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Walter Sisulu
4. P. W. Botha = president of SA
5. Desmond Tutu
6. F. W de Klerk = president of SA from 1989
, Timeline
1960 - banning of PAC and ANC
1964 - Rivonia Trial
1969 - Biko launches SASO
1969 - increased army and enforced 2 year conscription
1972 - Biko sets up Black community programmes, clinics and daycare centres
1973 - increase in activity of black trade unions
1973 - international trade union conference against Apartheid
1975 - Bantu education minister announces black students to learn half their
……………subjects in Afrikaans
1975 - Mozambique and ANgola gain independence
1976 - Soweto Uprising
1977 - Biko dies
1977 - Gleneagles agreement
1977 - banning of BC organisations
1979 - black trade unions recognised by govt.
1980 - Total Strategy
1981 - protests during Springbok tour to NZ
1982 - Urban Bantu Authorities Act introduced
1983 - UDF formed
1983 - P. W. Botha becomes president
1983 - blacks excluded from Tricameral Parliament
1984 - ECC forms part of UDF
1985 - COSATU formed
1985 - govt. declares State of Emergency
1986 - Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act passed
1987 - many American companies applied sanctions
1988 - ECC banned by govt.
1989 - ANC calls for ‘Year of Mass Action’ (MDM)
1989 - F. W de Klerk new state president
1989 - apartheid ends
1970s - 1980s
Important acronyms
1. BC = Black Consciousness
2. BPC = black people's convention
3. BCM = black consciousness movement
4. SASO = south african students organisation
5. SCM = students christian movement
6. MDM = mass democratic movement
7. UDF = united democratic front
8. MK = Mkhonto weSizwe
9. COSATU = congress of South African trade unions
10.NUM = national union of mineworkers
11. ECC = end conscription campaign
12. AZAPO = azanian peoples organisation
13. SASM = south african students movement
Key figures
1. Steve Biko = founder of BCM and SASO
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Walter Sisulu
4. P. W. Botha = president of SA
5. Desmond Tutu
6. F. W de Klerk = president of SA from 1989
, Timeline
1960 - banning of PAC and ANC
1964 - Rivonia Trial
1969 - Biko launches SASO
1969 - increased army and enforced 2 year conscription
1972 - Biko sets up Black community programmes, clinics and daycare centres
1973 - increase in activity of black trade unions
1973 - international trade union conference against Apartheid
1975 - Bantu education minister announces black students to learn half their
……………subjects in Afrikaans
1975 - Mozambique and ANgola gain independence
1976 - Soweto Uprising
1977 - Biko dies
1977 - Gleneagles agreement
1977 - banning of BC organisations
1979 - black trade unions recognised by govt.
1980 - Total Strategy
1981 - protests during Springbok tour to NZ
1982 - Urban Bantu Authorities Act introduced
1983 - UDF formed
1983 - P. W. Botha becomes president
1983 - blacks excluded from Tricameral Parliament
1984 - ECC forms part of UDF
1985 - COSATU formed
1985 - govt. declares State of Emergency
1986 - Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act passed
1987 - many American companies applied sanctions
1988 - ECC banned by govt.
1989 - ANC calls for ‘Year of Mass Action’ (MDM)
1989 - F. W de Klerk new state president
1989 - apartheid ends
