Topic 2: Armed struggle
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- Created on: 09-06-22 19:44
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- African nationalist radicalisation (armed struggle) 1961-68
- moves to armed struggle
- ANC- MK
- targeted buildings
- the Soviet Union made the largest financial contribution
- communist governments helped with training and education
- first act of sabotage planned for 16th December 1961 (Dingaan's day, Boer victory at Battle of Blood River)
- banning of parties made the decision for armed struggle more urgent
- SACP first to adopt armed struggle
- PAC- Poqo
- targeted people and buildings
- Africanist ideologies
- Mbashe Bridge killings- white family killed in a caravan
- viewed as African savagery
- ANC- MK
- The Rivonia Trial
- 8 key leading figures arrested including Mandela
- sabotage
- kept on Robben Island
- 1963-1964
- Mandela delivered a 4 hour speech- turned into a political movement for ANC
- life imprisonment rather than death penalty
- 8 key leading figures arrested including Mandela
- impact of exile and imprisonment on ANC and PAC
- Tambo travelled in exile around Europe and Africa gaining support for MK
- secured significant funding from the Soviet Union
- AAM found in London in 1960
- Trevor Huddesdon vice president 1961 to 1981 then president
- Sporting boycotts
- Stop the Seventy Tour
- FIFA banned South Africa from international football in 1963
- excluded from 1964 olympics
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- Tambo travelled in exile around Europe and Africa gaining support for MK
- moves to armed struggle
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