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Afrikaner Party
Smuts united party formed coalition government with another Afrikaner Nationalist Party -
The Imortality Act
Banned sexual relations between whites and blacks -
The Group Areas Act
Segretates communities based on race -
Defiance Campaign
Volunteers begin a peaceful resistance to apartheid by breaking laws they think are wrong.
ex0 Blacks sitting on benches marked for whites only. -
Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents Act
Requires all Africans to carry identification booklets with their names and other personal information. -
Perservation of Separate Amenities Act
Created separate but not equal: beaches, parks, post offices, and other public places for Africans, Coloreds, and whites -
The Bantu Act
The law that allows separation education systems for black and whites -
Nelson Mandela arrested...
...for treason.
He was arrested along with several others for fighting against apartheid. -
Seperate homelands are created for the major black groups
Government tries to stop blacks from being citizens of South Africa -
ANC
Made illegal -
Sharpeville Massacre
Blacks required to carry a passbook with personal information. Protestors show up at the station without their passbooks, 69 people are killed due to a riot breaking out at a police station. -
Nelson Mandela is arrested for treason...again
Arrested for his role in bombing government targets and sentenced life in prison -
Nelson Mandela
Jailed again. -
Rhodesia gains independence from Great Britain illegally
The Prime Minister announced that Rhodesia had broken away from Great Britain and that whites control the government. -
South African Students Organization
Steven Biko helps unify students through the Black Consciousness movement. -
South Africa is expelled from the United Nations
Because of the apartheid, South Africa is removed from the United Nations. -
Soweto Massacre
High school students in Soweto start a protest for an improved education system for blacks and more than 600 are taken down and killed with bullets and tear gas. -
Boycott South Africa
People and governments around the world launch an international campaign to boycott South Africa -
Musicians form Artists United against Apartheid
Steven Van Zandit releases an album against the Apartheid. -
Paul Simon releases Graceland
Criticized by many people for breaking the cultural boycott. -
F.W. de Clerk
Comes to power at the head of the National Party and begins to dismantle apartheid -
President Frederik Willem de Klerk...
...end the ban on the African National Congress. -
Nelson Mandela is released from prison
After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela is freed from prison. -
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa
South Africas first election that allowed both whites and blacks to vote, Nelson Mandela is elected president -
New ANC chief
Mandela steps down as ANC party leader. Replaced by Thabo Mbeki. -
Election
South Africa's secnd all race elecition are scheduled for June 2nd -
Bomb explosions in Soweto
A blast near Pretoria are thought to be the work of right-wing extremists -
Walter Sisulu
A key figure in the anti-apartheid struggle, dies aged 91 -
Another Election
Winning in a landslide, Thabo Mbeki begins a second term as president -
Same Sex
South Africa becomes the first African country, and the fifth in the world, to allow same-sex unions
