SANNC
operated under belief that British rule did some good for backs (education and christianization)
Work with white politicians
ANC
viewed by many blacks as elitist and out of touch with the masses
James Moroka
ANC leader, relplaced “old gaurd”
May Day stay at home strike
Organized by SACP, ½ Johannesburg workers didn’t go to work
ANC youth league
More militant (younger generation), advocated for the programme of action
Program of action
Proposal of mass strikes and defiance (proposed by anc youth groups)
Albert Luthuli
Christian and traditional leader — made it hard for the SA gov to paint the movement as bad
Program of economic advancement
Meant to show common people that the ANC stood for all blacks
Against poverty, homelessness
Campaign against Bantu Education Act
Parents in bantustans told to not send their kids to school and rather send them to “comunity schools” that never really materialized
Sophiatown protest
“We will not move”
Against forced relocation
Didn’t work
Treason trials
Prolonged legal case against hundreds of COP and ANC leaders
Split in movement
South African Communist Party
NP claimed sought to undermine unity of Afrikaners
Black and white
Suppression of communist act
Meant to stop the ability of protests to happen and broke the SACP
M plan
Mandelas plan to create a armed wing for a guerrilla war that would occur
Phase one of MK plan
Symbolic strikes against the SA state and hit regime financially by destroying high value installations (aka power stations)
Avoided loss of life
Phase two of MK plan
Guerilla campaigns in rural areas
Acts of sabatog, political agitation, and strikes
NEVER ACTUALLY REACHED
General Laws amendment
Aka sabatog act
Made it illegal to execute even the smallest acts of sabatog