The role and significance of key people and groups 1.4

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