Historical Figure
Walter Sisulu
South African anti-apartheid activist (1912–2003)
About Walter Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). Between terms as ANC Secretary-General (1949–1954) and ANC Deputy President (1991–1994), he was Accused No.2 in the Rivonia Trial and was incarcerated on Robben Island where he served more than 25 years' imprisonment for his anti-Apartheid revolutionary activism. He had a close partnership with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, with whom he played a key role in organising the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the establishment of the ANC Youth League and Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was also on the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party.Wikipedia ↗
Associated Events
Independence1910 CE – 1994 CE
South African Independence
South Africa's journey from British dominion (1910) through the apartheid era (1948-1994) to democratic nation, culminating in Nelson Mandela's election as the first Black president in the country's first fully democratic elections (April 1994).
Independence1994 CE
End of Apartheid
South Africa's first democratic elections in April 1994 ended decades of institutionalized racial segregation (apartheid), with Nelson Mandela becoming the country's first Black president — a triumph of the anti-apartheid movement.