ANC president Albert Luthuli called off the campaign after the government introduced new security legislation. The decision followed months of mass action, arrests, and growing state repression. This was a movement-level strategic response; it should not be attributed to Mandela alone. More than 8,000 volunteers had faced imprisonment, and the campaign had widened the ANC’s social base despite failing to repeal the targeted laws.
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