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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1960. Unlawful Organizations Act No 24 or 34

Dugard (1978: 430) numbers this act 34, Dyzenhaus (1991: 45) numbers it 24.

This act, "after being rushed through both houses of Parliament" (Riley 1991: 69), "was introduced to enable the banning of the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress" (Dyzenhaus 1991: 45). See also under the GENERAL LAWS AMENDMENT ACT of 1962 with regard to the Rivonia Trial of 1963-64.

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