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Apartheid became a law after the National Party won the election in 1948. They declared certain areas to where the white and black can go.
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In 1950, the government banned marriages for that blacks cannot marry whites and whites cannot marry blacks.
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People began to break laws such as only black people have a curfew and that black people can not sit on an "Only White People's Bench".
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The government law passes a new law that was about the education. That seperates whites and blacks. The whites got more education than the blacks.
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One day, 3,000 South Africans gathered together in a dusty square in Kliptown. They were having a meeting. The next day police broke up the meeting. Nelson Mandala was in that meeting. But he escaped since he was disguised as a milkman.
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The government accused around 156 leaders, including Nelson Mandela.
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One of the most violent events happened in 1960. Apartheid took place in Sharpeville, people killed around 69 black africans and wounding much more.
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Black South Africans invaded the roads infront of a police station in Cape Town. Police arrested more than 100 leaders of the groups.
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The police killed more than 67 people and wounded over 186, including children, most of the injured got shot in their back as they were trying to flee.
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Martin believed that South Africa had the world's worst racism.
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In 1976, thousands of black children in Soweto, the police opened fire with tear gas and bullets.
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Over 4,000 people were killed. Some of them died from eating rat poisoning.
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When Nelson Mandela was released from prison on Febuary, he worked with President F.W. de Klerks government to draw up a new constitution for South Africa.
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President de Klerk helped free Nelson Mandela from prison after 27 years of being there. He was freed in 1990.
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There was a two day peaceful election with millions of black South Africans voting in a national election for the first time.
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Both whites and blacks were allowed to vote in 1994. Nelson Mandela was elected for the first black president in South Africa.
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Nelson was sworn in as South Africa's president.
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34 miners were shot dead in South Africa by police because they were colored.
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Apartheid ended in 1994.
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There were around 18,000 murders every single year.
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