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General Election
The South African Government promises white South Africans to restrict the rights of blacks if they win the General Election. The National Party beats the United party, thus beginning apartheid. -
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Times of South African Apartheid
The South African Apartheid was a period of time where blacks were extremely oppressed under laws created by white governments that limited their freedoms and heavily affected their lives. -
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act & Immorality Amendment Act
These laws prohibited the marriages between white and colored people. If a couple was caught, they would be punished, with the colored person often most severely punished. Under the Immorality Amendment Act, sexual acts and extra-marital acts between a white and a colored person was also illegal. -
Separate Representation of Voters Act
Colored votes were removed from the common polls. They were given no representation in court and could not appeal to court for any circumstance. Most protests or attempts to appeal to court were objected partially due to the belief that any radical changes were pro-communism. -
Bantu Building Workers Act
This allowed blacks to become trained as artisans in the building trade, which was a job previously limited for whites only. However, blacks were still kept to work only a certain area and were held accountable for working in skilled urbanization. -
Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act
This act gave permission for the Minister of Native Affairs the permission to displace blacks from public or even privately owned land and establish resettlement camps for them. -
Pass Laws Act
Blacks and colored peoples over the age of 16 were required to carry pass books filled with identification, rights, job titles, and travel permits. -
Bantu Education Act
A new educational system is created to separate white and black children. Black children are only taught how to live a life of servitude because it was believed that that was all they were capable of. Black classrooms were packed and very shabby. -
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act
Segregation of public buildings, transport, and necessities ensued. Signs that read "Non-whites Only", "Whites Only", "Europeans Only", and et cetera appeared all over on everyday items and locations. -
Bantustans
A series of laws are passed to create various Bantustans, separate homelands for blacks in order to monitor them and limit their freedom. -
Extension of University Education Act
Blacks were no longer permitted to attend white universities (namely Cape Town and Witwatersrand). Separate institutions were then created for whites, blacks, colored peoples, and Asians. -
Sharpeville Massacre
Protestors of Bantus and Pass Laws showed up in a Sharpeville police station without their passports and many were shot and killed: 69 in total. -
South Africa is Expelled by the United Nations
Because of apartheid, the United Union expels South Africa until apartheid is ended. Many felt threatened by this and began to change their minds about apartheid. -
Soweto Massacre
Over 600 people and students were killed by bullets and tear gas while protesting for blacks to receive better education. Steve Biko, the organizer of the protest was also killed by brain trauma as a result from heavy beating by police after arrest. -
Ban Lifted from the African National Congress
President Frederick Willem de Klerk lifts the ban on the ANC.
