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how accurate is it to say that resistance to apartheid was largely unsuccessful ESSAY PLAN
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How accurate is it to say that the oppositoo to apartheii io the years 194-59 was largelyuosuccessful? (20 marks) - PLAN
Iotroiuctoo
- Consequence queston
- Criteria: government actonss long term impact
- Points to discuss: Defance campaigns bus boycotss ant-pass law protestss freedom charter
- Judgement: resistance to apartheid was not unsuccessful
Paragraph 1
The ANC and the SAIC launched the defance campaign in protest of the pety apartheid laws which
segregated people based on race.
- Racially mixed campaign
- Protesters wanted to be arrested so that they could fll up courts and make the laws
inoperable
- the police arrested and convicted people very quickly
- State of emergency declared by the government (people could be arrested and banned
without trial)
Although the defance campaign had a big impact in South Africas generatng support for the ANC
and encouraging resistances it is ofen seen as unsuccessful because the police were not unable to
cope with the number of arrests that we made and there was no change in the law – pety apartheid
laws were stll in place.
Paragraph 2
The Alexandra bus boycots were arguablys one of the only resistance campaigns to be successful in
the short term.
- Africans living in townships outside cites were dependent on buses to get them to work
- Bus fares went up
- Mass protest. People walked 32km round trips to and from work every day.
- Police harassed boycoters
- The fare increase was removed
The bus boycots were successful in the sense that they got what they were protestng fors the
removal of fare increases. Howevers the boycots had no real long term impact in the resistance
movement against apartheid.
Paragraph 3
A racially mixed group of women protested against the extension of pass laws to women in 1950
which resulted in the government putng of the extension of the laws.
- FSAW
- Verwoerd refused to speak to them because they were a racially mixed group
- The extension was proposed again in 1952
- There were more protests but the pettons that the FSAW lef behind were removed and
never looked at
Although the protests were successful in putng of the extension of the law at frsts the success was
short lived and it didn’t prevent the government from proposing the extension again. Despite the
short-lived nature of the successs the protests also had a large impact on South Africas giving women
a voice and challenging the stereotype that women were not politcally engaged.
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