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Creation of the Apartheid
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party governments. Where the rights, associations, and movements of the majority black inhabitants were restricted and African minority rule was maintained. -
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South African Civil Rights Movement
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The Population Registration Act
The Population Registration Act classified people into three racial groups: white, coloured (mixed race and asian), and native (African/black). Marriages between the three groups were forbidden in order to maintain racial purity -
The Group Areas Act
The Group Areas Act set aside specific communities for each of the races; white, colored (mixed race or Asian, and native (African/black). The best areas and the majority of the land were reserved for whites. Non-whites were relocated into "reserves." Mixed-race families are forced to live separately. -
Bantu Authorities Act
The Bantu Authorities Act, of 1951, was a new law which legalised the government's efforts to deport and relocate Blacks into new living areas (homelands), separating them from the rest of South Africa's people. -
Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents Act
This misleadingly-named act required all Africans to carry identification booklets with their names, addresses, fingerprints and other information. Africans are frequently stopped and harassed for their passes. Between 1948-1973, over ten million Africans were arrested because their passes were "not in order." Burning pass books became a common form of protest. -
Nelson Mandela is Jailed
Nelson Mandela, head of the African National Congress was jailed (The African National Congress (ANC), was a political organization for Africans, which encouraged peaceful resistance to the discriminatory laws of apartheid). -
Nelson Mandela released from prison
Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison. -
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela was democratically elected as South Africa's President, after more than three centuries of White rule.
Mandela set out to abolish all Apartheid rules and strived for a racially equal South Africa. -
Apartheid Abolished
On the 27th of April, people of ALL races were allowed to vote. The African National Congress had the most votes, with Nelson Mandela as its president.
