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Black voters were removed from the voter rolls
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Jan Christiaan Smuts brought the nation into World War II on the Allied side against Nationalist opposition, and South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations in 1945, but he refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Jan Christiaan Smuts brought the nation into World War II on the Allied side against Nationalist opposition, and South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations in 1945
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70 black protesters were killed during a peaceful demonstration in Sharpesville.
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South Africa declared itself a republic and severed its ties with the Commonwealth, which strongly objected to the country's racist policies.
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South Africa declared itself a republic in 1961 and severed its ties with the Commonwealth, which strongly objected to the country's racist policies.
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An uprising in the black township of Soweto spread to other black townships and left 600 dead.
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The Group Areas Acts of 1950 and 1986 forced about 1.5 million Africans to move from cities to rural townships, where they lived in abject poverty under repressive laws.
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Apartheid's grip on South Africa began to give way when F. W. de Klerk replaced P. W. Botha as president.
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a multiracial forum led by de Klerk and Mandela, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), began working on a new constitution
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Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Desmond Tutu, began hearings regarding human rights violations
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The African National Congress won South Africa's general election in a landslide, taking about 70% of the vote, and Thabo Mbeki was sworn in for a second term.
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African National Committee delegates chose Jacob Zuma as their leader, ousting Mbeki, who had been in control of the party for the last ten years.
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Olympic runner and national hero Oscar Pistorius was arrested in February 2013 and charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
