The National party started implementing apartheid laws and policies as soon as they came to power and many people immediately began to protest and resist this.
The following presentation sketches some of the opposition measures:
Repression and non -violent resistance to apartheid
An early influential leader of the resistance was Chief Albert Luthuli https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Luthuli
An important document that emerged from this period was the Freedom Charter which can be read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Charter
The Freedom Charter gave rise to a wave of repression culminating in the arrest of 156 leaders who were put on trial for treason . This is detailed in the following presentation https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/what-happened-at-the-treason-trial-africa-media-online/PwJS8md1REM3Iw?hl=en
ASSIGNMENT
1. Explain why the SA government believed it was right to be able to hold people in prison without a trial for 90 days and explain why this was possibly not something that should have been allowed.
2. Look up a copy of the freedom charter and write down one statement from it. Decide why this statement was included and to what extent it has become true today in South Africa.
3. What were three possible positive lessons from the Women’s March?