Defiance Campaign 1952
Turning points on the road to freedom
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Police force open a window to the Indian Congress offices in Johannesburg on July 31st 1952. They confiscated many documents for inspection. The raid was one of many on Congress branches in the Union on the same day. It was delayed 24 hours by a missing key to the door, and police had to guard the door overnight. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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Police force open a window to the Indian Congress offices in Johannesburg on July 31st 1952. They confiscated many documents for inspection. The raid was one of many on Congress branches in the Union on the same day. It was delayed 24 hours by a missing key to the door, and police had to guard the door overnight. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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Police force open a window to the Indian Congress offices in Johannesburg on July 31st 1952. They confiscated many documents for inspection. The raid was one of many on Congress branches in the Union on the same day. It was delayed 24 hours by a missing key to the door, and police had to guard the door overnight. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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"We shall flood all the gaols in the country," says Yusuf Cachalia, secretatary general of the Indian Congress, in Leader's Week speech outside the Johannesburg Courts. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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The defiance campaign was born in Johannesburg, on July 1951, when non-white leaders met and decided to form a Joint Planning Council to co-ordinate Africans, Indians and Coloureds, and "to embark upon an immediate mass campaign for the repeal of oppressive measures". Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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Nelson Mandela and Yusuf Dadoo were among the first to defy the unjust laws. Photograph by Eli Weinberg
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Leaders call for 10 000 volunteers. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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At Freedom Square, Fordburg the crowd masses to hear Moroka and Dadoo Speak from the platform, calling for volunteers for the Campaign. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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African National Congress leaders outside the Johannesburg Supreme Court during the Defiance Campaign trial in 1952. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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Protest march. Transvaal, June 1958: After the ban on politics in parts of the Marico district. Photograph by Victor Xashimba © BAHA
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Mrs Lilian Ngoyi, Vice President of the South African Federation of Women, addressing a meeting during the Defiance Campaign in 1952 in Johannesburg. Photograph by Jurgen Schaderberg © BAHA
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Photograph by Eli Weinberg
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Volunteers assembling to get a final 'briefing' before 'defying' the law
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Dr. Dadoo during the Defiance Campaign trial, smoking his symbolic pipe whilst talking to Ruth First
