Gandhi supports APO’s Day of Mourning

Date: 26 Feb 1910
Updated: 26 Feb 2020

Mahatma Gandhi supported the resolution of the African People's Organisation (APO) to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in Cape Town as a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Act's disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa.

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01South African History Online,"General South African History Timeline: 1910s",From: South African History Online,[Online],Available at:www.sahistory.org.za,[Accessed on: 28 February 2014]

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Gandhi supports APO’s Day of Mourning. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011324

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