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Only white people could vote and participate in elections.
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First steps of racial segregation: natives were prohibited from buying land from the whites and vice versa.
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They call for an anti-discrimination approach based on mass actions such as protests, boycotts and passive resistance
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It was an all-white government that enforced policies of racial segregation.
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Racial segregation was supported by the laws enacted that year by the National Party
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In this year the government begins to implement segregated areas in places such as beaches, buses, hospitals and schools, with the signs "only white people" or "only color people"
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Police shoot unarmed peaceful protestors. At least 67 were killed and 180 injured, they were all associated with The African National Congress (ANC), a group opposing Apartheid.
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More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed from their homes and deposited in the Bantustans, where they were plunged into poverty and hopelessness.
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Around 10,000 black children protested against a law that forced them to use both English and Afrikaans in schools. The police used teargas and murdered over 100 protestors.
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President Frédérik de Klerk, conducted negotiations since 1990 and dismantled the "Apartheid" regime in 1991.
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South Africa holds its first elections in which all races can vote and Mandela is elected president
