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Inkatha y KwaZulu
Black opposition movement aiming to establish independence from South Africa. Clashed with the ANC.
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Steve Biko
Led the Black Consciousness movement - calling black people to 'free their minds'. Was murdered whilst in police detention in 1977.
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Rivonia Trial
August 1962. Mandela and others were given life sentences on charges of sabotage.
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Day of Defiance
26 June 1952. Over 8000 people were arrested for walking through 'forbidden areas' without their passes.
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Censorship
The Sabotage Act prevented newspapers from criticising the government. Books and films from abroad could be banned.
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Freedom Charter
26 June 1955. A Congress of the People met to approve the Charter demanding the right to vote, equality before the law, in education and the workplace.
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Soweto Riots
16 June 1976. A student protest against the use of Afrikaans in black schools resulted in their killing by police.
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Sophiatown
Black township bulldozed and rebuilt as a white suburb called Triumph. Part of the Group Areas Act to relocate black Africans.
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