Apartheid

  • May 1948

    May 1948
    They started voting (white afriacans)
  • June 1952

    Volunenteers were brealing the law by apatheid.
  • The Bantu Education Act is passed

    They made and seperate educations system for blacks and whites. They blacks were in charge for repairing them.
  • December 1956 Nelson Mandela is arrested for treason

    Nelson Mandela was arrested and alot of other people for fighting against apartheid....
  • March 21, 1960

    Black people were required to carry passbooks. The passbooks were filled with their personal informantion such as name, date of birth, and pictures. When some protestors show up at the police station with out their books their becomes a riot and kills 69 people :'(
  • Rhodesia illegally gains independence from Great Britain

    Rhodesia has gotten away from Great Britain and white people will take over the government and blacks were only given a little power to the government.
  • More than 600 students are killed in the Soweto Massacre.

    High school students in Soweto start to protest for an better education system for blacks. The Police come with tear gas and bullets, killing more than 600 people.
  • Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed

    Steve was a protestor and he got arrestested August 18th. He dies in police custody because of severe brain damage (beaten by the police.)
  • South Africa is expelled from the United Nations

    South africa is removed from the United nations. South Africa is not allowed back in the United Nations until Apartheid ends.