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Apartheid Regime Institutionalized and Dismantled

By Kgavin1
  • Discovered Diamonds in South Africa

    Discovered Diamonds in South Africa

    Included South Africa in the global economy
  • Gold Discovered in South Africa

    Gold Discovered in South Africa

    Integrated South Africa in the global economy
  • Defeat of the Boers

    Defeat of the Boers

    Defeat of the Boers in the Anglo-Boer or South African War (1899–1902),
  • South Africa Act

    South Africa Act

    the Union of South Africa was created as a dominion of the British Empire
  • Natives' Land Act

    Natives' Land Act

    Reserved 93 percent (revised to 87 percent in 1936) of the land in South Africa for whites; it prevented Africans—two-thirds of the population at the time—from freely buying land. 1913 Land Act beginning of territorial segregation by forcing black Africans to live in reserves and making it illegal for them to work as sharecroppers
  • National Party Established

    National Party Established

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Beginning of Apartheid - National Party Established Control

    Beginning of Apartheid - National Party Established Control

  • Founding of Afrikaner Broederbond

    Founding of Afrikaner Broederbond

    Secret organization for the advancement of Afrikaners - Presidents and Prime Ministers were members from 1948- end of Apartheid
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

    Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

  • Group Areas Act

    Group Areas Act

    Furthered segregation - classified the population according to race
  • The Population Registration Act

    The Population Registration Act

    Classified the races
  • Immorality Amendment Act

    Immorality Amendment Act

  • Separate Representation of Voters Act

    Separate Representation of Voters Act

  • Defiance Campaign

    Defiance Campaign

    ANC began the Defiance Campaign
  • Rwandan Genocide

    Rwandan Genocide

  • Congress of the People adopted a Freedom Charter

    Congress of the People adopted a Freedom Charter

    Resistance to Apartheid was growing -- charter claimed South Africa belonged to all who lived in it
    https://www.apartheidmuseum.org/sites/default/files/files/downloads/Learners%20book%20Chapter4.pdf
  • The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act

    The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act

    Tried to break down the black majority by reestablishing tribal affiliations
  • South Africa Excluded from the Olympics

    South Africa Excluded from the Olympics

  • Sharpeville Massacre

    Sharpeville Massacre

  • The Organisation of African Unity

    The Organisation of African Unity

  • Mandela Jailed

    Mandela Jailed

  • Malcom X Speaks at The Organisation of African Unity Summit

    Malcom X Speaks at The Organisation of African Unity Summit

  • American Civil Rights Act

    American Civil Rights Act

  • Black Power Speech - Carmichael

    Black Power Speech - Carmichael

  • Ghana Independence

    Ghana Independence

  • Olympics - Black Power Salute

    Olympics - Black Power Salute

    Mexico City - Tommie Smith and John Carlos
  • Forced Relocation of South Africans

    Forced Relocation of South Africans

  • UN Security Council Denounced Apartheid

    UN Security Council Denounced Apartheid

  • Soweto Uprising

    Soweto Uprising

  • Harvard Protests Against Apartheid

    Harvard Protests Against Apartheid

  • Period: to

    State of Emergency - Township Revolts

  • Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act

    Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act

    United States placed economic sanctions on South Africa
  • Japan and the EU imposed Economic Sanctions on South Africa

    Japan and the EU imposed Economic Sanctions on South Africa

  • Disinvestment Campaigns at American Colleges

    Disinvestment Campaigns at American Colleges

    Michigan State & Stanford & Vassar are noteworthy examples
  • Collapse of the Berlin Wall

    Collapse of the Berlin Wall

  • F. W. de Klerk as President of South Africa

    F. W. de Klerk as President of South Africa

    assumption of the South African presidency by F. W. de Klerk in 1989
  • Mandela Released from Jail

    Mandela Released from Jail

  • Henrik De Klerk Won the Nobel Peace Prize

    Henrik De Klerk Won the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Mandela Inaugurated

    Mandela Inaugurated

    Democratic Election marks the end of South African Apartheid
  • Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa

    Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa

  • Period: to

    Sources:

    Michigan State University "Overcoming Apartheid" "http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/index.php South African History online "http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-apartheid-south-africa" History.com "http://www.history.com/topics/apartheid" The History of Apartheid in South Africa from Stanford "http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html" BBC on Apartheid "http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid/" Apartheid Museum "https://www.apartheidmuseum.org/"