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The apartheid started.
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Although many of the segregationist policies dated back to the early decades of the twentieth century, it was the election of the Nationalist Party. -
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 -
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. -
On March 21, 1960, police officers in a Black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive laws. Sixty‐nine protestors were killed. -
The trial took place in Pretoria at the Palace of Justice and the Old Synagogue and led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. -
On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was assassinated in Cape Town, shortly after entering the House of Assembly at 14:15. A uniformed parliamentary messenger named Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times before being subdued by other members of the Assembly. -
the 1970 Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act ruled that all Blacks would assume the nationality of one of the homelands, even if they had never set foot in it -
Sometimes known as the township revolt and driven both by local grievances and by opposition to apartheid, the uprising lasted two years and affected most regions of the country. -
South African Black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity. -
The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist