National Flag.png The black, green and gold "National Flag" of the liberation struggle June 26th: South Africa Freedom Day Stayaway, 1950 Defiance Campaign, 1952 Congress of the People, 1955 Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959 SADTU Teachers at Work, with logo, smaller Part 1 June 26th: South Africa Freedom Day During the struggle against apartheid, South Africa's national liberation movement - the African National Congress - observed special days. The ANC's National Freedom Day was the most important day in the calendar. This day was June 26th. The special days of the ANC, marked every year with events and ceremonies, were: Date Day Origin Occasion 8 January ANC Anniversary 1912 Founding of the ANC 21 March Sharpeville Day 1960 Sharpeville Massacre 1 May May Day 1886 International Workers' Day 25 May Africa Day 1963 Founding of the OAU 16 June Soweto Day 1976 Youth Uprising 26 June South Africa Freedom Day 1950 National Stayaway* 9 August National Women's Day 1956 FEDSAW March to Pretoria 16 December Umkhonto we Sizwe Day 1961 Founding of MK Five of these days are now Public Holidays in South Africa. The exceptions are January 8th, May 25th, and the most important day of all: National Freedom Day, June 26th. April 27th - the anniversary of the first universal-franchise election - is now called Freedom Day in South Africa. * 26 June celebrated, and was the occasion of, the following: June 26th, 1950: the second national stay-away, preceded by: Defend Free Speech Convention, Johannesburg, 26 March 1950 1 May 1950, the first stayaway and massacre (18 killed) Publication of Unlawful Organisations Bill (later Suppression of Communism Bill); CPSA disbanded on 20 June 1950 June 26th, 1952: the Defiance Campaign Preceded by Joint Planning Council between ANC and SAIC June 26th 1955: Freedom Charter signed Preceded by Congress of the People Campaign (Freedom Volunteers) June 26th, 1959: Anti-Apartheid Movement formed Preceded by boycott campaigns in South Africa The above will form the content of the next four parts, followed by a Summary. -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/006c01d1c230%24a1310c60%24e3932520%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
