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Apartheid put into action by national party
Party in 1948 that marked the beginning of legalized racism's harshest features called Apartheid. The Cold War then was in its early stages. -
Population registration Act
The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. -
Mixed marriages act
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No. 55 of 1949, was an apartheid-era law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between "whites" and "non-whites". -
Sharpevillie Massacre
On March 21, 1960, police officers in a Black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive laws. Sixty‐nine protestors were killed. -
Rivonia trial
Nelson Mandela's Statement from the Dock
at the Opening of the Defence Case
in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964 -
Prime minister hendrik verwoerd assassinated
Assassination. On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was assassinated in Cape Town, shortly after entering the House of Assembly at 14:15. A uniformed parliamentary messenger named Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times before being subdued by other members of the Assembly. -
Bantu homeland citizenship Act
1970 defined Blacks living throughout South Africa as legal citizens of the homelands designated for their particular ethnic groups -
Township uprising
township revolt and driven both by local grievances and by opposition to apartheid, the uprising lasted two years and affected most regions of the country. -
Nelson Mandela Released from prison
He was released unconditionally on 11 February 1990, after spending 27 years in prison. This release happened after the Apartheid government had previously offered him conditional freedom in 1985. -
Nelson mandela became president
The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated as President of South Africa, and ended on 14 June 1999.