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apr 6, 1959 - PAC formed

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-Pan Africanist Congress, led by Robert Sobukwe

-ANC split - Africanists within ANC disagreed with ANC collaboration with white communists + other non-African anti-apartheid groups, & thought ANC lacked militancy + dynamism (insistence on peaceful protest)

-strategy: hijack ANC campaigns, e.g. anti-pass protest (where Sharpeville Massacre occurred) scheduled for before announced ANC anti-pass protests

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apr 6, 1959
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~ 66 years ago