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Apartheid put into action by National Party
Although many of the segregationist policies dated back to the early decades of the twentieth century, it was the election of the Nationalist Party on June 61948 that marked the beginning of legalized racism's harshest features called Apartheid. The Cold War then was in its early stages. -
Mixed Marriages Act
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was designed to "protect" White political and social dominance by preventing a handful of people from blurring the line between White society and everyone else in South Africa. -
Population Registration Act
The Population Registration Act was a piece of South African legislation enforcing the apartheid system. It required all citizens to register their specific racial characteristics with the government authorities. How an individual was classified greatly determined their social, legal, and economic rights and status. -
Sharpeville Massacre
On 21st March 1960, 69 protestors killed. Brining fourth political conflict, showing the NP intended to maintain white supremacy by force. Which provoked outrage around the world and forced ANC & PAC to consider new tactics. -
Rivonia Trial
The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in apartheid-era In South Africa between October 9 1963 - June 12 1964 and after a group of anti-apartheid activists were arrested on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia. -
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwood is Assassinated
On September 6 1966 at Cape Town South Africa the Prime minister Hendrik Verwood was Assassinated. -
Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act
It was a Citizenship Act of 1970 defined Blacks living throughout South Africa as legal citizens of the homelands designated for their particular ethnic groups—thereby stripping them of their South African citizenship and their few remaining civil and political rights. -
Township Uprising
On September 3 1984 the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. -
Nelson Mandela Released from prison
On February 11, 1990, The South African Black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity. -
Nelson Mandela becomes president
On may 10 1994 Nelson Mandela Becomes the president of South Africa