South African’s National Liberation Movement

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Defiance Campaign

The Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws was launched on 26 June 1952 by the ANC together with the South African Indian Congress.

More than 8,500 volunteers or ‘defiers’ were imprisoned for peacefully refusing to obey apartheid laws. The campaign, which carried on into 1953, attracted thousands into political activity.