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Defiance Campaign - Coggle Diagram

- - - - During the Campaign was when the late Chief Albert Lutuli was deposed from the chieftaincy to
        which he had been elected for refusing to obey the orders of the regime to dissociate from the ANC.
        
        He was elected President-General of the ANC in December 1952
      - The Campaign generated a mass upsurge for freedom.
      - Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC Youth League,
        
        was appointed Volunteer-in-Chief of the
        Campaign.
        
        His election as the Transvaal President and
        Deputy National President of the ANC was in 1952.
      - ANC was banned in 1960,
      - The membership of the A.N.C. increased from
        7,000 to 100,000 during the campaign and it became a truly national organization of the people.
      - The deliberate massacre of African school children in Soweto on June 16, 1976, led to two results contrary to the calculations of the racist regime.
        
        It sparked mass non-violent defiance as the people lost fear of imprisonment, torture and death.
        
        It persuaded the militants that armed struggle was indispensable as part of the strategy for liberation,
        
        It persuaded the militants that armed struggle was indispensable as part of the strategy for liberation,
        
        The oppressed people became more attached to the ANC and its leaders than ever before, and Nelson Mandela has become the most honoured political prisoner in history
- - - - Symbol of resistance
  - - - son of a former Governor-
        General;
    - - an Afrikaner trade union leader
    - - an author
    - - a law student and now professor of law in
        Mozambique.
- - - - However, this did not work as they faced opposition from Western countries