Resistance and gov reaction

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  • Created on: 09-06-22 17:58
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  • Resistance to apartheid and government reaction, 1960-61
    • peaceful protest
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    • the banning political parties and state of emergency
      • 30th March 1960
      • police powers strengthened
        • police could detain people without restrictions
        • Unlawful Organisations Act banned parties and threatened public order
          • PAC ANC
    • the Sharpeville Massacre and its significance
      • 69 dead 187 injured
        • police opened fire despite no order from chief to do so
        • police seen placing stones by bodies to frame
      • 21st March 1960
        • 5,000 protestors asked for police to arrest them
          • police claimed 20,000
      • international condemnation
        • UN called for apartheid to be reversed
        • photographs of shootings provided evidence for press
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