[1] The uprising was not an isolated event, but part of the Defiance Campaign which started in June 1952.
These laws were deemed unjust and inhumane by numerous members of the community and thus, as part of the Defiance Campaign in Kimberley Dr Arthur Letele, who was the ANC branch chairperson of the No.2 Location, organized a group of volunteers to defy the apartheid laws.
2 Location executive ANC members namely Sam Phakedi, Pepys Madibane, Olehile Sehume, Alexander Nkoane, Daniel Chabalala and David Mpiwa were arrested.
Protestors intended to march towards the centre of town and threatened to burn the petrol depot in Cecil Suzman Road.
[1] A mass funeral was held at the field next to the Methodist Church at the corners of Mzikinya, Rhabe and Sanduza Streets in Galeshewe.