Resistance and gov reaction
- Created by: Kdale
- 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
- 5,000 protestors asked for police to arrest them
- international condemnation
- UN called for apartheid to be reversed
- photographs of shootings provided evidence for press
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- 69 dead 187 injured
- peaceful protest
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