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Slavery is Abolished Throughout the British EmpireThe Abolitionist Movement was the struggle for freedom of slaves in the British Empire. Slavery was abolished by the British in all of its colonies besides South Africa. The abolishment in South Africa was delayed by four months. South Africa's slavery was supposed to be abolished on December 1st, 1834. -
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Apartheid TimelineSlavery was abolished by the British Empire on December 1, 1834, which is now celebrated annually by South Africans. The abolishment of slavery hurt the colonists in South Africa because they had investments in the slaves. The replacement for the practice of slavery was the four year apprenticeship of slaves. This got slave owners to get back into the workforce. -
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National PartyDutch-descended Afrikaners and English-speaking Whites formed a political party in South Africa known as the "National Party". J.B.M Hertzog founded the National Party in 1914 to stand against the "Anglicizing" ways of the government. The National Party formed it's policies to apartheid and white supremacy. -
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Apartheid Video Part 1Once the National Party had risen, there was a segregation law formed and put into action in 1948 know as Apartheid. Apartheid prohibited mixed marraiges, prohibited adultery between whites and blacks, recorded every citizen's race, forced physical separation between races, outlawed communism, forced blacks to hav identification on them, gave the power to remove blacks from public or privately owned areas -
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Sharpeville MassacreThe PAC, Pan Africanist Congress led by Robert Sobukwe, attempted to start a non-violent protest in hopes of finding the first step in black people's bid for freedom. PAC members got up on March 21st and woke up people from Sharpeville to join them. More and more people joined and they all marched to Sharpeville's police station. There was a small brawl, and one police opened fire claiming self defense. More and more police shot as well, and after two minutes, 69 protestors died. -
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Apartheid TimelineWhile Apartheid was still continuing, South Africa became an independent nation. The British Commonwealth no longer was dealing with South Africa. Apartheid laws were growing andtaking action on all blacks. Meanwhile, Nelson Mandela somehow managed to leave the country to travel around the rest of Africa and Europe. He gets arrested in the next year when returning to the country. -
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Student Uprising in SewotoBlacks were forced to live in Sewoto, a South Western township, during apartheid. Students went to protest mandatory instructions. Open fire begna by the police directed toward the crowd and killed a 12 and 15 year old. For the next 8 months, violence was constant and seemed never ending. The government killed 575 protestors in that time. -
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Apartheid Video Part 2 For years, Nelson Mandela had been secretly negotiating with the South African government. Parliament had started repealing some of the apartheid laws, and on February 2nd, 1990, Mandela was released from prison, which is where he was for 27 years. In order to end the armed struggle, the ANC and government signed the Pretoria Minute. Fighting still broke out slightly but not often.the slow, unraveling break of the Apartheid System. -
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Video For Mandela Violence was still somewhat outbreaking every now and then and laws were still being repealed. The process of ending apartheid was long but continuing. On April 27th, 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected president in the nation's first all-race democratic election. He got inaugurated on May 10th, 1994. Mandela states in 1995 that he will not run for a re-election. He was the first black president elected in South Africa.
