EVENT INFORMATION

26
Juni
1952

Police arrest Mandela after a Johannesburg meeting

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Biografie 📅 26 Juni 1952 📍 Zuid-Afrika

After a meeting at the Garment Workers Hall, Mandela and Maulvi Cachalia were among those arrested for leaving after curfew. They had planned to observe rather than be arrested during the day’s first acts of defiance, but the evening arrests made the campaign’s leaders targets too. The arrest showed how the state used curfews and police powers to suppress an organized challenge to apartheid law.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Nelson Mandela

Organisaties in dit Evenement

African National Congress

South African Indian Congress

National Volunteer Corps