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DM2008102102:SAED:EDUCATION:POLITICS:PERSONALITIES:NO DATE – Defiance – Dr J. Jongwe – Leader of Defiance in the Cape. The Defiance Campaign was born over a year ago, in Johannesburg, on July 1951, when non-white leaders met and decided to form a Joint Planning Council to co-ordinate Africans, Indians and Coloureds, and “to embark upon an immediate mass campaign for the repeal of oppressive measures” which the Council pleadged to attack were, and still are, limited to the Pass laws, Stock Limitations, the Group Areas Act, and the Suppression of Communist Act. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) caption taken from Drum Oct 1952