Apartheid

British arrive

Dec 12, 1810

Diamond mining begins

Dec 12, 1867

Constitutional convention

Dec 12, 1908

This is for South Africa to try and get independence from Great Britian.

African National Congress formed

Dec 12, 1912

Blacks are fired from jobs

Dec 12, 1920

Blacks get fired and the jobs are given to whites

No education

Dec 12, 1939

less than 30% of blacks recieve education

African mine workers are paid less

Dec 12, 1946

African mine workers do more dangerous work and get paid ten times less.

Population Registration Act

Dec 12, 1950

made it so you could only marry people of the same race

Homelands can't support everyone

Dec 12, 1951

South Africa is excluded from Olympics

Dec 12, 1960

Nelson Mandela goes to jail

Dec 12, 1963

resistance to apartheid increases

Dec 12, 1970

3 million people forced to move

Dec 12, 1970

Soweto uprises

Dec 12, 1976

people try to boycott South Africa

Dec 12, 1980