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The 1948 Election
The apartheid beats the United Party and wins the election. -
Group areas act passed
The group areas act was passed to segregate blacks and whites. -
The Start of the Defiance Campaign
The volenteers started a resistance to apartheid by breaking up some of the laws that they thought were wrong. -
The Bantu Education Act is passed
A law was passed so that there was two different education systems for blacks and whites. -
The Sharpeville Massacre
After a day of demonstrations against the pass laws. About 5,000 to 7,000 black african protesters went to the poilce station. -
The Travel
Mandela fought for the rights of his people. And traveled illegally outside of South Africa. -
Gains Independance
Prime Minister Ian Smith said that Rhodesia left Great Britain and said that Whites will now control the government. -
South Africa Expelled
Becasue of the apartheid South Africa was expelled from the United Nations. -
600 Students are Killed
When high school students at Soweto Massacre started a protest about a improvment to the blacks education system. -
The Kidnapping
The Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco was kidnapped and then 19 months later was released. -
ANC unbanned
Mandela released after 27 years in prison -
Elected President
Mandela was elected president by the nation assembaly. -
Thabl Mbeki
ANC wins general elections Thabo Mbeki becomes president. -
UN Race
Durban had a UN race confrence. -
The Bombing
There was a bomb explosions in Soweto it was thought to come from
right-wing extremists. -
Mbeki sacks his deputy
President Mbeki sacks his deputy. -
Public Prosecutors
The Public prosectuors drop all the cases on Jacob Zuma. -
