Apsrtheid

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  • Apartheid put into action by National Party

    Apartheid put into action by National Party

    Enacting a series of racial laws and regulations it called apartheid ("apartness" in Afrikaans)
  • Mixed Marriages Act

    Mixed Marriages Act

    An apartheid-era law in South Africa that prohibited between whites and non whites.
  • Population Registration Act

    Population Registration Act

    Required all citizens to register their specific racial characteristics with the government authorities.
  • Sharpeville Massacre

    Sharpeville Massacre

    69 protestors were killed. "Police in a Black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive laws."
  • Rivonia Trial

    Rivonia Trial

    Ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system.
  • Prime Minister Hendrik Verwood is Assassinated

    Prime Minister Hendrik Verwood is Assassinated

    A uniformed parliamentary messenger called Dimitri Tatenda's Stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times.
  • Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act

    Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act

    An act ruled that all Blacks would assume the nationality of one the homelands, even if they had never set foot in it.
  • Township Uprising

    Township Uprising

    Driven by both local grievances and by opposition to apartheid.
  • Nelson Mandela Released from prison

    Nelson Mandela Released from prison

    Nelson end up spending 27 years in prison and got releases by the current president. The president released him because it would help the ANC.
  • Nelson Mandela becomes president

    Nelson Mandela becomes president

    Became president on May 10, 1994. Nelson Was president of South Africa and ended on 14 June 1999.