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Native's Land Act
The new National Party passed an act that prohibited "Natives" (South African's) from owning any land in South Africa outside of the 7.5% land of reservations made for them. This ended share cropping and took a part of many African's lives away from them. -
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
Although Mixed marriages were rare, this act was passed to prevent white people having relations with other colored people. This was even further developed when the Immorality Act was passed preventing sexual relations between whites and non-whites. -
Group Areas Act
This act was passed in the belief that non white people would corrupt the social order in the populated areas, so this act was meant to make the cities an "all white designated place". This put non whites on the outskirts of the city into more rural areas. -
The Bantu Education Act
This act ultimately segregated the educational system. In this new system, the Apartheid gained control over non whites education. Africans now did not have hardly any education, and were set up to work in manual labor forces such as coal mines. White people received all of the education, and the Africans recieved nothing close to it. -
Bus Boycott
The ANC had been trying to organize a protest in this way for a while before this event. However push came to shove when the bus fair was the cost of a months salary. A boycott began and spread rapidly from town to town, hitting a more economical side of the Apartheid system. -
University Education Act (Extension)
This act was the goal of completely separating the non whites from the whites in every educational aspect. Before, Indian groups could even attend white schools, however, now new universities were made just for specific ethnic groups. This was done in hopes of giving the ethnic groups a self run society away from the white peoples society. -
PAC breaks from the ANC
The ANC had attempted peaceful protests time and time again. Eventually a new group called the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) was formed. The PAC looked to protest in new ways, involving violence at police stations and other public facilities. The PAC was composed of mostly younger people, and people who thought that violence would be the answer to the Apartheid system. -
The Sharpeville Massacre
Policemen opened fire onto peaceful protesters outside of a police station. There were about 5,000 people at the incident, and when a ruckus broke out and the police claim that stones were thrown at them, while protesters claimed there was no violence. Police started to then open fire on the crowd and multiple dead bodies resulted in the situation. -
The MK Forms Under the ANC
This group was led by former peaceful figures, such as Nelson Mandela. This group also used the help of regional posts composed of white communists who have explosive expertise. This group essentially organized sabotage on the Apartheid system and was basically a more violent ANC division. -
The Riviona Trials
A ANC meeting was raided by the Apartheid Government. Documents on scheduled attacks and other material were found on the ANC. Many of the leaders of the organization were arrested. The trials put many into prison, however, it then became more world wide and recognized in the imprisonment of the ANC people. Figures such as Nelson Mandela were awarded, and the fall of the Apartheid government ultimately began at this point when the world witnessed what was actually happening behind the scenes.