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  National party takes power and begins to pass laws designed to insure that black and white people were apart.
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  National Party says that they will make laws restricting black rights if they win the general election
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  people start to break the laws they think are wrong
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  Bantu Education Act is passed
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  Nelson Mandela is arrested, but after a long 4 yr trial, he is found non-guilty.
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  Cant have sex with another color. 1957 is when it actually became.
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  Sharpeville Massacre, 69 people died because there was a riot and the police shot.
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  Nelson Mandela is arrested once again for treason.
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  South Africa got removed from United Nations
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  Rhodesia gets some independence from Great Britain.
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  more than 600 students are killed in the Soweto Massacre in the protest for blacks.
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  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.
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  Nelson Mandela is released from prisin
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  Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa
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  ANC wins general elections, Thabo Mbeki takes over as president.