Abstract
The strike remained solid in Cape Town the day after the Langa funeral, but the initiative passed rapidly into the hands of the government on Wednesday 30 March 1960, with the proclamation of a State of Emergency. The harsh terms of the Public Safety Act introduced in 1953 to crush the Defiance Campaign were invoked. The operation of such repressive legislation revealed again the Nationalist government’s capacity for Nazi-style thuggery.
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Vigne, R. (1997). In the Crucible. In: Liberals against Apartheid. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374737_13
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