People And Groups Flashcards
Dominant figure between 1948-64 ANC youth league - pres 1950 Rose during DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN Helped plan COP and Freedom Trial *united africans of all races in struggle*
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Pres of ANC 1952-1967
Non-violence
Organizer of defiance campaign
Moral leader of the movement**
Albert Luthuli (1898-1967)
Initiated petty apartheid
NP (national party)
Prime Minister 1948-54
Daniel Malan
NP
Started grand apartheid in late 1950s
“Architect of apartheid”
Prime Minister 1958-88
Henrik Verwoerd
Armed wing of the ANC
Founded by Mandela after sharpeville Massacre
Strategy to sabotage destroy and not take lives
*caused govt to crack down harshly
MK (spear of the nation)
Declared illegal in 1950 - forced underground Mandela on central comm Helped def cam and fee charter Organized strikes Supported creation of MK
South African Communist Party (SACP)
Methods: strikes ; peaceful resistance ; bus boycotts ; passbook protests
Viewed as too elite -poor rural Africans not involved
No real success ; leaders jailed and protests banned
*brought injustices of apartheid to rest of world
The African National Congress (ANC)