With further protests, the ANC's membership grew from 20,000 to 100,000; the government responded with mass arrests and introduced the Public Safety Act, 1953 to permit martial law.
随着更多抗议的举行，非国大的成员由20,000增加至100,000名；政府的回应是实施大规模拘捕，提出1953年《公共安全法》以推出戒严令。