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Nelson Mandela bourght to life imprisonment.
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In 1948, the Afrikaner National Party won the general election under the slogan “apartheid”. Their goal was to separate South Africa’s white minority from its non-white majority. Also to separate non-whites from each other and to seperate black South Africans along tribal lines in order to lower their political power.
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By 1950, the government had banned marriages between whites and blacks and prohibited sexual relations between black and white South Africans. The Population Registration Act of 1950 provided the basic framework for apartheid by classifying all South Africans by race, including Bantu, Coloured, and white.
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Dr. Hendrik would refine apartheid policy further into a system he referred to as “separate development.”
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The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 created 10 Bantu homelands known as Bantustans. Separating black South Africans from each other enabled the government to claim there was no black majority, and down the possibility that blacks would unify into one nation.
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Seventy black ,poelpe who where demasterting something, killed at Sharpeville.
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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was murdered.
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More than 3 million colored people were forced to live back in their "Home Lands".
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More than 600 killed in battles between black protesters and police forces during uprising.
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Township refused, starts revolt, state of emergency.
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The revolt has stoped between the forces.
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FW de Klerk becomes the president.
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De Klerk gets rid of remaining apartheid laws.
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A settled agreedment on interim constitution.
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Wins first ever non-racial election.
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Truth and Archbishop Desmond Tutu begins on human rights crimes
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Wins general elections, Thabo Mbeki is now the new president.
