Apartheid part 2
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- Apartheid peopleWalter SisuluWalter Sisulu's mixed heritage and lighter skin were influential in his early social development. He felt distanced from his peers and rejected the egh attitude his family showed toward South Africa's white administration.Source:Alistair Boddy-Evans thoughtco.com
- Walter Sisulu joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940.In his later years he earned a reputation as a street vigilante because he would patrol his townships streets with a knife. The first time he was put in jail it was because he punched a train conductor when he took away a black man's rail pass.
- In 1944 radicals (people who wanted all white people gone, and were more inclined to use violence) in the ANC(African National Congress)started the Congress youth league to try and encourage the ANC to take a more “confrontational approach” and use bigger actions to achieve their goals
- After pressure from the Youth league the ANC worked with other groups working against Apartheid like South African Indian CongressThe Defiance campaign focused on the end of the Natives Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents Act (1952), which required more info on passbooks. The Defiance campaign’s goal was to fill up the courts.
- Over 5 months 8,000 people were imprisoned for one to three weeks, the participants in the campaign showed great self discipline, making it hard for the government to use forceful action, which helped gain more help for the cause
- Major events in ApartheidIn Sharpville a town in South Africa the police opened fire on a crowd of unsuspecting protesters, killing 69 and injuring 186In May 1961, during another stay-at-home campaign, the government used a large military force to scare African workers from joining the campaign. They were afraid that there would be violence like the protests in Kenya and Algeria. Even though the protest was peaceful, white civilians were given guns to protect themselves.
- Government involvement in the end of ApartheidFrom 1961 to 1991 more than 3,000 people were imprisoned on Robben Island Maximum Security prison due to their political beliefs or actions. (There were prisoners at other places as well) aside from that many people were detained without trial.Between 1948 and 1991, the government banned more than 1,600 men and women. Banned people endured severe restrictions on their movement, political activities, and associations intended to silence their opposition to the government’s apartheid policies and stop their political activity.
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