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The Nationalist Party is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Malta.
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South Africa allowed marriages between people of different races.
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The Group Areas Acts forced 1.5 million people to move cities to rural townships
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The Population Registration Acts, required that all Africans were classified into three categories according to race. These were Black, Colored, or White.
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In 1950 "mixed" marriages was baned then got changes to an amendment to the immorality Act that got Passed
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This act moved Africans to there native lands.
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All of the Africans had to carry a pass-book with them where ever they went.
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When protestors show up at the Sharpeville police station without their passbooks, a riot breaks out and police kill 69 people.
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High school students in Soweto start a protest for an improved education system for blacks. Police break up the protest with tear gas and bullets, killing more than 600 people.
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Steve Biko, one of the organizers of the Soweto protest, is arrested on August 18, 1977. He dies in police custody on September 12 and the cause of death is severe brain damage, likely from being beaten by police.
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Paul Simon traveled to South Africa to make the album "Graceland" with local South African musicians.
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In the country's first election that allowed both whites and blacks to vote, Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa.
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After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela is freed from prison.
