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Nelson Mandela
Helped put a stop to the apartheid -
Women's rights
Burning passes at the Sharpeville police station. -
The parliament passed new laws extending racial segregation by creating separate bantustans or homelands, for South Africa's major Black groups.
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Homelands
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 declared that all Africans were citizens of “homelands,” rather than of South Africa itself -
Forced out
Two years into apartheid rule, the Group Areas Act was passed, forcing citizens out of urban areas, and into residential areas where they would be housed according to racial groups. This is one of the laws enacted during the period between 1948 and 1993. -
More than 600 students were killed in Soweto and Sharpeville, known as the Soweto Massacre
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The Dumbutshena Report is commissioned by the government to investigate events surrounding the Entumbane uprising
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Removal of Africans
the apartheid government removed 3.5 million africans -
It is declared that since 1983, dissidents have murdered 120, mutilated 25, raped 47, and committed 284 robberies
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Nelson Mandela is freed from prison