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Apartheid is introduced. There are laws where people are seperated by their race.
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The African National Congress was a black civil rights group that began a Campaign of Defiance. It was for laws that were unfair in Apartheid.
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In Sharpeville 67 Africans were killed while protesting in Apartheid.
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Nelson Mandela was arrested for plotting against the government and will spend 27 years in prison.
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The prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated.
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More than 600 people were killed when protesters and security forces clashed when an uprising started in Soweto.
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Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years.
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Mandela and De Klerk are given the Noble Peace Prize.
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When all of the races can vote in 1994, Nelson Mandela is elected president.
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South Africa hosted a World Cup rugby tournament. They also won it.
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Thabo Mbeki becomes Africa's new president.
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The next election was a landslide. Thabo Mbeki starts his second term.
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Jacob Zuma is elected president.
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South Africs hosts the World Cup soccer tournament.
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President Zuma sacks two ministers that are accused of coruption.
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The ANC suspended its leader, Julius Malema, for five years for bringing the party into disrepute.
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A white member of an extremist group was found out to be plotting to kill Mandela. He was also trying to overthrow the government.
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Nelson Mandela died in December of 2013.
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President Zuma announces plans to limit the amount of farm sizes. Also to forbid foreign-ownership.
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A large nuber of anti-immigrant attacks left several people dead.
