South Africa

  • Apartheid officially began  1948

    Apartheid officially began 1948

    Apartheid officially began, and people started protesting. Laws were being changed that restrickted Africans to go into somewhere or use something.
  • Africans were classified into three categories

    Africans were classified into three categories

    The government passed a law saying Black, Colored, and White were broken into 3 categories based on education, appearence, and manner
  • Blacks Resricted from entering

    Blacks Resricted from entering

    Dates
    Only black people who worked in the area were aloud to inter, and if came in not being a worker was sent to prison
  • Africans to their native land

    Africans to their native land

    The African's went within their homeland. This increased the education of the Whites, Blacks, and Colored, but they still had to be seperated.
  • African's in Sharpeville Revolted

    African's in Sharpeville Revolted

    Alarge group of African's didn't carry around their passports. This went on for 156 days 69 African's 190 wounded
  • Africans killed over Protesting

    Africans killed over Protesting

    70 black protesters were killed during a peaceful demonstration
  • Thabo Mbeki,

    Thabo Mbeki,

    A man named Thabo Mbeki became president, and leader of ANC
  • Africa Won

    Africa Won

    African National Congress won South Africa's general election in a landslide
  • Charged with Abuse

    Zuma about two weeks before national elections, was charged with intolerable abuse
  • New Elected leader

    Parliament elected Kgalema Motlanthe, a labor leader who was imprisoned during apartheid, as president.
  • People killed brutaly by police

    People killed brutaly by police

    In Marikana in which 34 people were brutally killed by police, beacuse of the election
  • Zuma alected again

    Zuma alected again

    Zuma was again elected leader of the African National Congress
  • Olympian Arested

    Olympian Arested

    Oscar Pistorius was arrested and charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend
  • Death of Nelson Mandela

    Death of Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela died at age 95 , and had recently been ill health for several months after battling a lung infection
  • Zuma Become 2nd Term President

    Zuma Become 2nd Term President

    May 2014 elections, handing Zuma a second term president