ANC against racial segregation in Johannesburg.
The 1950’S…
Defiance Campaign
On 17 December 1951 the South African National Congress had set in motion a campaign for the defiance of unjust laws. The South African Indian Congress had joined in on this motion which was under the leadership and President Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo. On Freedom Day 26 June 1952 a meeting was held at Fordsburg, Johannesburg, where eight thousand volunteered from around the country had continued to break the apartheid laws. The apartheid law that was broken was the ‘The Class Area Bill’. The actions the volunteers would take was that ‘blacks, Indian, coloured, and whites’ would enter through doors that was reserved for whites, the whites entered the townships of Africans without permits, coloured would ride on the trains that was marked ‘Europeans only’ and Indians would inhibit the areas reserved for whites. This led to the imprisonment of all the volunteers who had protested. The image shows the amount of people who were the volunteers for the opening of the defiance campaign.
Unjust Laws
In 1948, the oppressive national government established discriminatory regulations and laws to enforce a segregated society. These laws and regulations that was enforced would only consider the and benefited the ‘white’ people in South Africa. This was also known as the apartheid regime. The laws that was emplemented were the Groups Areas Act, the Immorality Ammendment Act, the Population Registration Act, and the Reservation Separate Amentities Act. In contrast, the African Natioinal Congress also known as the ANC created the Defiance Campaign, with the aim to fight against the apartheid established society and its governence.
A South African Hero…
The Treason Trial
Winding veils round their heads, the women walked on deck. They were now moving steadily down the river, passing the dark shapes of ships at anchor, and London was a swarm of lights with a pale yellow canopy drooping above it. There were the lights of the great theatres, the lights of the long streets, lights that indicated huge squares of domestic comfort, lights that hung high in air.
No darkness would ever settle upon those lamps, as no darkness had settled upon them for hundreds of years. It seemed dreadful that the town should blaze for ever in the same spot; dreadful at least to people going away to adventure upon the sea, and beholding it as a circumscribed mound, eternally burnt, eternally scarred. From the deck of the ship the great city appeared a crouched and cowardly figure, a sedentary miser.
Determination
The struggle of Nelson Mandela and the ANC proves to us that
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