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Apartheid put into action by National party
1948 -
population registration act
required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. -
Rivonia Trial
10 south Africans was sent to prison including Nelson Mandela -
bantu homeland citizenhip act
ruled that all Blacks would assume the nationality of one of the homelands, even if they had never set foot in it -
Township Uprising
On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the Transvaal -
Nelson Mandela released from prison
Nelson Mandela had faced a life sentence nut was released by the president he severed 27 years -
Nelson Mandela becomes president
Nelson Mandela becomes president