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Apartheid put into action by National Party
Enacting a series of racial laws and regulations it called apartheid ("apartness" in Afrikaans) -
Mixed Marriages Act
An apartheid-era law in South Africa that prohibited between whites and non whites. -
Population Registration Act
Required all citizens to register their specific racial characteristics with the government authorities. -
Sharpeville Massacre
69 protestors were killed. "Police in a Black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive laws." -
Rivonia Trial
Ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system. -
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwood is Assassinated
A uniformed parliamentary messenger called Dimitri Tatenda's Stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times. -
Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act
An act ruled that all Blacks would assume the nationality of one the homelands, even if they had never set foot in it. -
Township Uprising
Driven by both local grievances and by opposition to apartheid. -
Nelson Mandela Released from prison
Nelson end up spending 27 years in prison and got releases by the current president. The president released him because it would help the ANC. -
Nelson Mandela becomes president
Became president on May 10, 1994. Nelson Was president of South Africa and ended on 14 June 1999.