South Africa Strikes Back
After Sharpeville, the anti-apartheid leaders knew they had to employ another method, violence.
Poqo- the PAC's militant wing
MK- the ANC's militant wing
Both the groups started launching attacks on buildings in business areas, some were inhabited at the time they were hit, and others were not. They retaliated with a strong force behind them, the support of the international community, the world saw these laws just as inhumane as the black africans did.
Poqo- the PAC's militant wing
MK- the ANC's militant wing
Both the groups started launching attacks on buildings in business areas, some were inhabited at the time they were hit, and others were not. They retaliated with a strong force behind them, the support of the international community, the world saw these laws just as inhumane as the black africans did.
The Opinion of the World |
"I ... don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting."
-Helen Joseph (anti-apartheid activist) "I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid." -F.W. de Klerk (former president of South Africa) "In the decades that followed the world body would contribute to the global struggle against apartheid by drawing world attention to the inhumanity of the system, legitimizing popular resistance, promoting anti-apartheid actions by governmental and non-governmental organizations, instituting an arms embargo, and supporting an oil embargo and boycotts of apartheid in many fields." - United Nations official website, on apartheid "The most prominent campaign by the organisation on South Africa during this period was the 1957 Declaration of Conscience against Apartheid, which gained the signatures of 133 prominent world leaders in a consensus statement that Houser describes as ‘mild in language’. It called on governments and organisations to ‘persuade the South African government, before it reaches the point of no return, that only in democratic equality is there lasting peace and security’.33 Eleanor Roosevelt was the international chairperson of the campaign." - Anti-apartheid solidarity in United States–South Africa relations: From the margins to the mainstream by William Minter & Sylvia Hall |