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19 December 1953

The 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway

Updated
17 Dec 2019
conference of the ANC

The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was Walter Sisulu. At the conference the ANC resolved to begin with the boycott campaign. A series of boycott campaigns were staged throughout the country, including the 1952 Defiance Campaign. This was the biggest non-violent resistance movement ever seen in South Africa and the first campaign undertaken jointly by all racial groups under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to mass action and to tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience.

How we know this

  1. 01O’Malley P. ‘1982’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za(Accessed: 24 October 2012)
  2. 02South African History Online, ‘Stanley Mabizela’, [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za(Accessed: 25 October 2012)
  3. 03EISA, (2008) ‘Swaziland: Demise of democracy and the consolidation of autocracy (1968-1986)’, [online], available at www.eisa.org.za (Accessed: 25 October 2012)  

Last updated · 17 Dec 2019

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South African History Online. (2012, December 13). The 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094408

South African History Online (2012) 'The 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway ', South African History Online, 13 December. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094408 (Accessed: 7 October 2026).

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"The 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway ." South African History Online, 13 Dec. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094408. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "The 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway ." South African History Online. December 13, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094408.

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