South Africa 1948-200

  • National Party comes to power:passes apartheidlaws

  • Black homelands established

  • Sharpeville Massacre, 69 protesters killed

  • 600 black students killed during Soweto protest

  • Stephen Biko killed in police custody

  • FW. de Klerk elected president

  • ANC legalized and Mandela released

  • ANC wins 63% of the mandela elected president

  • New Constitution adopted

  • ANC candidate Thabo Mbeki elected president