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founding of the ANC
It was founded i 1912 but is was know as South African native national congress (SANNC) until it was renamed the African National congress in 1923. -
congress youth league founded
It was foermed in 1944 by membera of the ANC who beiievd on African Nationalism and wanted to follow an active policy focused on the mobilisation of the masses. -
defiance campaign
The first campaign was june 1952 it had small bands of black resisters in the main towns boradening the moment to embrace similar centers and larger groups. in subsequent stgrd arossed the countryside and tp support passive resistence with general strickes. -
nelson mandela sentence to life in prison
He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961. -
albert luthuli wins the nobel peace prize
Zulu chief and president of the African National Congress (1952 – 60). Trained at a mission school, Lutuli taught and served a small community as chief before being elected ANC president. He was frequently imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities. He set forth his views in Let My People Go (1962). In 1960 he became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. -
steve biko dies in police custody
was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower black people, and he was famous for his slogan "black is beautiful", which he described as meaning: "man, you are okay as you are, -
sharpeville massare
At least 180 black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police open fire on approxomently 300 dmeonstraters who were protesting against the pass laws. -
spear of the nation formed
Like Nelson Mandela, we anti-PKers feel that violence is a necessary evil to deter griefing. Unlike the griefers, we will only use violence to defend ourselves, and to help defenseless newbs who are being griefed. We will not intervene in others' camp disputes or disputes over raid mobs, but if we have knowledge of you corpse camping, bind camping, killing players on corpse runs, et cetera, expect us to unleash the full fury of our guild upon you. Additionally, Spear of the Nation strives to be -
the soweto
When high-school students in Soweto started protesting for better education on 16 June 1976, police responded with teargas and live bullets. It is commemorated today by a South African national holiday, Youth day, which honors all the young people who lost their lives in the struggle against Apartheid and Bantu Education. -
desmond tutu wins the nobel peace prize
The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu's role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa. The means by which this campaign is conducted is of vital importance for the whole of the continent of Africa and for the cause of peace in the world. Through the award of this year's Peace Prize, the Committee wishes to direct attention to the non-violent struggle for liberation to which Desmond Tutu belongs, a struggle in which black and -
nelson mandela releast from prision
born 18 July 1918)[1] served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years -
nelson mandela becomes president of south africa
Nelson Mandela has become South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule. Mr Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party won 252 of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa's history