EVENT INFORMATION

30
Maart
1960

Government declares a state of emergency and detains activists

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Organisatiegeschiedenis 📅 30 Maart 1960 📍 Zuid-Afrika

The government declared a state of emergency after weeks of mass protest, including the Sharpeville killings and the nationwide stay-at-home. Police arrested more than 2,000 people, many in dawn raids, and detained activists without trial. The emergency suspended ordinary protections and preceded the banning of the ANC and PAC. State repression targeted a wider anti-apartheid public, not only formal party leadership.

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Union government

ANC

PAC

political activists

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Organisaties in dit Evenement

African National Congress