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Period: to
Robert Sobukwe
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National party Came into power.
Sobukwe joined the ANC Youth League while a student in 1948 -
D.F Malan became president.
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The prohibitation of mixed marraige act.
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Population Registration Act.
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The Group Areas Act.
Mixed races were forced to live seperately. -
The Bantu Homelands Act.
Lands reserved for Black Africans became independant Nations. -
Abolition of Passes and co-ordination of Documents Act.
Requires Africans to carry identification books. -
Bantu Education Act.
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20 000 woman protest against the pass laws.
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Sharpville Massacre
69 people died while marching to police station. ANC and PAC banned. -
South Africa became a republic.
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Nelson Mandela Imprisioned after the Revonia trial for high treason.
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District 6 is declared a white area.
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Hendrik F. verwoerd was assasinated in Cape Town by Dmitri Tsafendas.
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The Soweto uprising.
126 students killed and one of them was Hector peterson in a high school student protest.