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Prohibition Of Mixed Marriages
It was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races. -
Prevention Of Legal Squatting
This act authorized the forcible removal of squatting communities. -
Bantu Education Act
The 1953 Bantu Education Act was one of apartheid's most offensively racist laws. It brought African education under control of the government and extended apartheid to black schools. -
South Africa Withdraws From The Commonwealth.
On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether South Africa should become a republic. -
Umkhonto weSizwe Is Founded
Umkhonto weSizwe as it was more commonly known, was launched on the 16th December 1961. On the same day in 1838, the Afrikaners had defeated the Zulus at the Battle of the Blood River and it was perhaps significant that the armed struggle was launched on this particular day, more than one hundred years later. -
The National Party
Was a political party in South Africa founded in 1915 and first became the governing party of the country in 1924. -
The South African Government Bans Pink Floyd's
Life imitated art in early 1980 when South African school children, fed up with an inferior apartheid-era education system, took to chanting the lyrics of Pink Floyd‘s “Another Brick in the Wall.” The song, with its memorable line stating, “We don’t need no education,”. -
The Natal UDF
The first branches of what later became the United Democratic Front were formed in May 1983 in the Transvaal, Cape Province and Natal. -
Impala Platinum Fires 20,000 Black Mine Workers.
Twenty thousand black miners were fired Monday at three of South Africa's largest platinum mines, and 10,000 more were threatened with dismissal today if they continue a strike begun a week ago. -
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola.
The battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led to the movement of powerful Cuban armed force, into the west, towards the Namibian border. -
Communist China Start Trading With South Africa
The People’s Republic of China’s relationship with South Africa has deepened significantly in recent years, as shown by a raft of economic and political proclamations. -
The New National Party Enters Into A Cooperation Agreement
The first leader of the National Party became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid. -
South Africa Signs Kyoto Protocol.
The EU-South African relationship has significantly developed since the end of the Apartheid. A comprehensive political partnership exists, of which one important pillar is the Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement -
Brenda Fassie Dies In Hospital
She died after spending 13 days in a coma in the hospital -
Nine South African National Defence Force Soldiers Are Accidentally Killed
These machines that they used start firing mysteriously on their own sometimes. This software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers.
