Naional Party in South Africa

By Lohan Coetzee

  • The Start

    The national party is anounced the governing party of South Africa

  • the prime minister of sa in anounced

  • The prohibitation of mixed marriage act

    Prohibited marriages between white people and people of other races. Between 1946 and the enactment of this law, only 75 mixed marriages had been recorded, compared with some 28,000 white marriages.

  • Group areas development act

  • population registration act

  • The group areas act

    Forced physical separation between races by creating different residential areas for different races. Led to forced removals of people living in "wrong" areas, for example Coloureds living in District Six in Cape Town.

  • bantu homelands act

    land reserved for black africans became independant nations

  • Seperate representation of voters act

    Together with the 1956 amendment, this act led to the removal of Coloureds from the common voters' roll.

  • abolition of passes and coordination of documents act

    this misleadingly named law requires all africans to carry id booklets

  • Bantu Education act

    Established a Black Education Department in the Department of Native Affairs which would compile a curriculum that suited the "nature and requirements of the black people". The author of the legislation, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd (then Minister of Native Affairs, later Prime Minister), stated that its aim was to prevent Africans receiving an education that would lead them to aspire to positions they wouldn't be allowed to hold in society. Instead Africans were to receive an education designed to provi

  • Natives ressettlement act

  • 20000 thousand woman protest against past laws

  • Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act

    Classified black people into eight ethnic groups. Each group had a Commissioner-General who was tasked to develop a homeland for each, which would be allowed to govern itself independently without white intervention.

  • sharpville masacre

    anc and pac banned

  • SA becomes a republic

  • Mandela imprisoned after rivonia trial for High ttreason

  • henrik verwoord assasinated in cape town

    Dimitri tsafendas