The Apartheid State’s Response to Resistance (Grade 11 NSC Matric History): Flashcards
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4 steps in apartheid state's response pattern to resistance
4 steps in apartheid state's response pattern to resistance
Identify threat, pass laws, arrest leaders, break up groups
Leaders arrested after 1952 Defiance Campaign
Leaders arrested after 1952 Defiance Campaign
Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and 18 other organisers
Act used to charge Defiance Campaign leaders
Act used to charge Defiance Campaign leaders
Suppression of Communism Act
Public Safety Act (1953) main power
Public Safety Act (1953) main power
Allowed state to declare state of emergency
Criminal Law Amendment Act (1953) purpose
Criminal Law Amendment Act (1953) purpose
Harsh penalties for using protests to challenge laws
Bantu Authorities Act (1951) purpose
Bantu Authorities Act (1951) purpose
Increased govt control over rural African areas
Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act (1959) aim
Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act (1959) aim
Break African unity via ethnic divisions & homelands
1956 Treason Trial - who was arrested
1956 Treason Trial - who was arrested
ANC & Congress of the People leaders (Mandela, Sisulu, etc.)
Duration and outcome of 1956 Treason Trial
Duration and outcome of 1956 Treason Trial
5 years; all accused acquitted by Justice Rumpff
Ultimate result of 1950s resistance-repression cycle
Ultimate result of 1950s resistance-repression cycle
Led to underground armed struggle in 1960s