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Searching around
They discovered diamonds. Nine years later they discovered gold. -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela became involved with the African National Congress during the peak of the Second World War. Along with sixty other members, the mission of the ANC was to turn the group into a mass movement. -
Voting
Black voters were removed from the voter rolls in 1936. -
Apartheid
Apartheid officially began in 1948. -
Prohibition of Mixed marriages
They prohibited the intercourse of blacks and whites being married or having affairs. All people over the age of sixteen had to carry identity cards that grouped people into various racial categories. -
Mandela moves up
Mandela was elected National Volunteer-in-Chief.His job was to travel around the country, organizing resistance against discrimination. -
Resistance to Apartheid
One of the first political organizations in Africa opposed to the apartheid was Lubumba Yama Afrika, which believed that the only way to fight the Whites was through African unity. -
Catasrophe!
a large group of Africans in Sharpeville revolted by not carrying around their pass-books. This resulted in the government declaring a state of emergency in this region. The emergency continued for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 190 wounded. -
Nelson fights for his country
Mandela fought a war of non-violence and equal opportunities for all people. He was released on February 11th, 1990, and was elected as the first democratically chosen president of South Africa on may 10th 1994. -
Apartheid ends
Apartheid finally came to an end in 1990 when president F.W. de Klerk announced a formal end to the apartheid. -
laws repealed
All apartheid laws were repealed. The sanctions, created by the UN, were repealed as well. -
Nelson's prize!
Nelson received the Nobel Peace prize on behalf of all the South Africans who suffered to bring peace to the land. -
New president
On June 2, 1999, Thabo Mbeki, the pragmatic deputy president and leader of the ANC, was elected president in a landslide, having already assumed many of Mandela's governing responsibilities. -
nelson retires for presidency
Nelson Mandela, whose term as president cemented his reputation as one of the world's most farsighted and magnanimous statesmen, retired in 1999. -
Nelson Mandela's death
Nelson died on December 5, 2013. He was in Houghton Estate, South Africa. He was born July 18, 1918. He was born in Mvezo, South Africa. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
