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APN760210

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: The Story Of Defiance – Dr Dadoo. April 6, At Freedom Square, Fordsburg, the crowd masses to hear Dadoo speak on the platform. 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 pledged to attack were, and still are, limited to the Pass Laws, Stock Limitations, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Voters, Representation Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, and the Suppression of Communism Act. The Joint Planning Council consisted of J.B. Marks, Dr Moroka and Walter Sisulu, of the African National Congress. They issued a report, to be put before the African National Congress, the Government should be called on to repeal the unjust laws, if they refused, mass demonstrations were to be held followed by the defiance campaign.

APN756991

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756871

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756836

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leader Walter Sisulu (right, with classes) to the garment factory in the ANC Development Centre Dakawa, Tanzania, February 1990. Photo: Eli Weinberg Photo Lab.

APN756789

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756592

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Walter Sisulu (left) and his son Max (right), visiting Mazimbu, Tanzania in February 1990.Photo"Eli Weinberg Photo Lab.

APN756517

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756353

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756212

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756135

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756107

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN756079

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO).

APN755915

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN755815

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Walter Sisulu (standing with portrait in centre), Albertina Sisulu (sitting right to him) and Govan Mbeki (sitting right) to the ANC Development Centre Dakawa, Tanzania, February 1990. Photo: Eli Weinberg Photo Lab.

APN755758

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN755703

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Visit of ANC-leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki to Mazimbu (SOMAFCO)

APN755558

Creator: ANC Archives Description: Robben Island, South Africa, 1966, PHOTO: ANC Archives: Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu in the Prison yard - Robben Island.

APN755557

Creator: ANC Archives Description: South Africa, 1952, PHOTO: ANC Archives: David Bopape (ANC Transvaal), Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela meeting during Defiance Campaign 1952.