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Anti Apartheid Movement

  • ANC Fundation

    It became one of the strongest party in the fight against Apartheid, one of ANC's famous leader was Nelson Mandela.They preached that the way to win this war was the nonviolence protests and that they was fighting for a multiracial country.
  • Native Land Act

    The Natives Land Act was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more fertile land for whites.
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  • SACP was founded

    This party would get on the war against the Apartheid system based on a limited violence and future support of communists countries.
  • Freedom Charter Was Approved

    Freedom Charter was a article written by the ANC Youth League asking and demanding better rights to the black people
  • PAC Formed

    Third greatest party and third different ideals, their goal was to make South Africa a just negros country
  • Sharpeville Massacre

    After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others.
  • POQO Begins

    Wing of PAC that believed that just violence was the way to reach their goal. They was known to use the guerrilla warfare as way to protest.
  • MK was established

    A violent wing of the ANC that was led by Nelson Mandela, they believed that a structured violence system of protests became the way to reach their goals.
  • Mandela got arrested

    Considered as a terrorist one of the big names against the apartheid was sentenced to spend the life in prison. He was accused of sabotage and conspiracy and sent to the Robben Island's prison
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  • Mandela became the President

    In the first presidential race with Negros in the history of South Africa the recent released after 27 years Nelson Mandela gets elected