South Africa

By pacemjs
  • National Party takes power

    National Party takes power
    National party takes power and begins to pass laws designed to insure that black and white people were apart.
  • Apartheid begins general election

    Apartheid begins general election
    National Party says that they will make laws restricting black rights if they win the general election
  • African National Congress starts

    African National Congress starts
    people start to break the laws they think are wrong
  • Bantu Education Act

    Bantu Education Act
    Bantu Education Act is passed
  • Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela is arrested, but after a long 4 yr trial, he is found non-guilty.
  • Immortality

    Immortality
    Cant have sex with another color. 1957 is when it actually became.
  • Sharpeville Massacre kills several

     Sharpeville Massacre kills several
    Sharpeville Massacre, 69 people died because there was a riot and the police shot.
  • Nelson Mandela arrested agian

    Nelson Mandela arrested agian
    Nelson Mandela is arrested once again for treason.
  • South Africa expelled

    South Africa expelled
    South Africa got removed from United Nations
  • Rhodesia gets independence

    Rhodesia gets independence
    Rhodesia gets some independence from Great Britain.
  • Soweto Massacre

    Soweto Massacre
    more than 600 students are killed in the Soweto Massacre in the protest for blacks.
  • ban ends on the African National Congress

    ban ends on the African National Congress
    President Frederik Willem de Klerk ends the ban on the African National Congress, and in 1993 he wins the Noble Peace Prize for helping Nelson Mandela.
  • Nelson Mandela released

    Nelson Mandela released
    Nelson Mandela is released from prisin
  • New President??

    New President??
    Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa
  • ANC wins.

    ANC wins.
    ANC wins general elections, Thabo Mbeki takes over as president.