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Apartheid put into action by national party
It was the election of the Nationalist party in 1948. That's when it was marked the beginning of legalized racisms harshest features called Apartheid. It was a the begging of many problems. -
Mixed marriages act
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No. 55 of 1949, was an apartheid-era law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between "whites" and "nonwhites". It was among the first pieces of apartheid legislation to be passed following the National Party's rise to power in 1948. -
population registration act
The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. It required all citizens to register their specific racial characteristics with the government authorities. -
Sharpeville massacre
The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960 at the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng). After demonstrating against anti-black pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 black protesters went to the police station. -
Rivonia Trial
Often referred as" the trial that changed south Africa". In October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charge of sabotage. In the trial the most important moment in the trial was Mandela's speech. He condemned the very court in which he was appearing as illegitimate. -
Prime minister Hendrik Verwood is assassinated
On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed several times by parliamentary aide Dimitri Tsafendas. He died shortly after, and Tsafendas was jailed until his death in 1999. -
Bantu homeland citizenship act
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 made every Black South African, irrespective of actual residence, a citizen of one of the Bantustans, which were organized on the basis of ethnic and linguistic groupings defined by white ethnographers. Blacks were stripped of their South African citizenship -
Township Uprising
On September 3 the tricameral Parliament opened in cape town.The Lekoa and Evaton town councils idea to raise tariffs for municipal services caused the demonstration's and stayaways. It was the start of the longest and most widespread of black resistance to white rule. -
Mandela released from prison
After spending 27 years in prison Mandela was released on this date. This release happened after the apartheid government had previously offered him conditional freedom in 1985. This was turned down and Mandela asked his daughter Zindzi to read out his reply to the offer at a rally in Jabulani, Soweto. -
Nelson Mandela becomes president
The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated as President of South Africa, and ended on 14 June 1999.