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Defiance Campaign June 1952 - resistance to apartheid
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- 1When was the Defiance Campaign?June 1952
- 2Where was it intended to take place?JoBurg and Durban
(major cities) - 3Where did it take place?Port Elizabeth and East London
(Poor Areas) - 4Why were the areas poor?Had high levels of infant morality
- 5Who was volunteer-in-chief?Nelson Mandela
- 6Who led the campaign?Gwentshe and Fazzie
- 7How many attended the first campaign?1,500 - shouted ANC slogans
- 8What was the campaign's strategy?Volunteers to break key apartheid laws, e.g. segregated facilities, and risk arrest
- 9Whose ideas were the campaign influenced by?Ghandi
(lived in South Africa 1893-1914) - 10Why was the strategy problematic?Made leadership of the movement vulnerable. Leaders going to jail could disable the movement.
- 11Whose attention did the campaign gain?United Nations
- 12What did the UN do?Set up a commission to investigate the situation
- 13Why was the campaign called off?Became to violent, showed the dangers of mass protest. Was not effective.
- 14Number of deaths and injuries?7 African deaths and 18 injured
- 15Why was it important for the ANC?Membership rose from 4,000 to 10,000
- 16Outcome of the campaign?Marked the beginning of non-racial
co-operation
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