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Smuts united party formed coalition government with another Afrikaner Nationalist Party
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Banned sexual relations between whites and blacks
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Segretates communities based on race
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Volunteers begin a peaceful resistance to apartheid by breaking laws they think are wrong.
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Requires all Africans to carry identification booklets with their names and other personal information.
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Created separate but not equal: beaches, parks, post offices, and other public places for Africans, Coloreds, and whites
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The law that allows separation education systems for black and whites
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...for treason.
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Government tries to stop blacks from being citizens of South Africa
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Made illegal
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Blacks required to carry a passbook with personal information. Protestors show up at the station without their passbooks, 69 people are killed due to a riot breaking out at a police station.
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Arrested for his role in bombing government targets and sentenced life in prison
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Jailed again.
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The Prime Minister announced that Rhodesia had broken away from Great Britain and that whites control the government.
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Steven Biko helps unify students through the Black Consciousness movement.
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Because of the apartheid, South Africa is removed from the United Nations.
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High school students in Soweto start a protest for an improved education system for blacks and more than 600 are taken down and killed with bullets and tear gas.
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People and governments around the world launch an international campaign to boycott South Africa
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Steven Van Zandit releases an album against the Apartheid.
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Criticized by many people for breaking the cultural boycott.
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Comes to power at the head of the National Party and begins to dismantle apartheid
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...end the ban on the African National Congress.
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After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela is freed from prison.
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South Africas first election that allowed both whites and blacks to vote, Nelson Mandela is elected president
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Mandela steps down as ANC party leader. Replaced by Thabo Mbeki.
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South Africa's secnd all race elecition are scheduled for June 2nd
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A blast near Pretoria are thought to be the work of right-wing extremists
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A key figure in the anti-apartheid struggle, dies aged 91
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Winning in a landslide, Thabo Mbeki begins a second term as president
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South Africa becomes the first African country, and the fifth in the world, to allow same-sex unions
