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The apartheid begins in South Africa after the election.
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The African National Congress broke the laws that they thought were wrong. One of them was breaking the law saying that blacks and whites could not sit on the same bench together.
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The Bantu Education Act law is passed, allowing blacks and whites to have seperate education.
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Nelson Mandela, leader of Umkhonto we Swize, is arrested for bombing government targets. He is convicted to life in prison.
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Rhoesia broke away from Great Britian and that whites will control the goverment.
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South Africa is banned from the United Nations due to apartheid. They are not allowed back into the UN until the apartheid is over in 1994.
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High school students in Soweto start protesting for an improving education system. The police try to break up the protest with bullets and tear gas, killing 600 people.
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Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist, is killed by being beaten by the police. He had major brain damage. He was arrested in August, dying almost a month later.
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President Fredrerik Williem de Klerk ends the ban on the African National Congress in 1990. In 1993, de Klerk wins the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for helping end apartheid.
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Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years.
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Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa. He is the first black president of South Africa.
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South Africa hosted the World up rugby, and won.
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A new constitution was given ultimite approval.
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President Nelson Mandela signed the finished constitution.
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Five police officers admitted to killing anti apartheid Steve Biko, who died in 1978. His death was listed as an accident.
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South Africa signed a free trade pact.
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In the year of 2002, 21,000 people were killed in South Africa
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Nelson Mandela retires from the public. He said he wants to spend the rest of his years writing and resting. He could barely walk.
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Nelson Mandela died on Decemeber 5th, 2013.
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South Africa's population was about 54 million.
