Apartheid 1948-1980

By Corbsheep

  • National party comes into power

    National Party overran the UP
  • Period: to

    Apartheid

  • Prohibition of mixed marriages

  • Groups areas act

    no-whites were located into reserves, mixed race families are forced to live sperate

  • Bantu homelands act

    land reserved for black africans, independant nations

  • Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black law firm

  • abolition of passes and co-ordination of documents act

    requires all people to walk around with ID booklets

  • Bantu Education Act of 1953, results in black and white children being educated seperately

  • 20 000 women march to Union buildings in protest

  • The PAC is formed in South Africa by Robert Sobukwe, after a schism in the ANC

  • Sharpville massacare

  • South africa becomes independant

  • Nelson Mandela is imprisoned for 5 years

  • Revonia trial

  • Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison

  • district 6 declared a white area

  • H. Verwoerd assassinated

  • Seweto uprising

    High school students led the protest- 176 killed and Hector Peterson shot