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