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National Party takes power
National party takes power and begins to pass laws designed to insure that black and white people were apart. -
Apartheid begins general election
National Party says that they will make laws restricting black rights if they win the general election -
African National Congress starts
people start to break the laws they think are wrong -
Bantu Education Act
Bantu Education Act is passed -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is arrested, but after a long 4 yr trial, he is found non-guilty. -
Immortality
Cant have sex with another color. 1957 is when it actually became. -
Sharpeville Massacre kills several
Sharpeville Massacre, 69 people died because there was a riot and the police shot. -
Nelson Mandela arrested agian
Nelson Mandela is arrested once again for treason. -
South Africa expelled
South Africa got removed from United Nations -
Rhodesia gets independence
Rhodesia gets some independence from Great Britain. -
Soweto Massacre
more than 600 students are killed in the Soweto Massacre in the protest for blacks. -
ban ends on the African National Congress
President Frederik Willem de Klerk ends the ban on the African National Congress, and in 1993 he wins the Noble Peace Prize for helping Nelson Mandela. -
Nelson Mandela released
Nelson Mandela is released from prisin -
New President??
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa -
ANC wins.
ANC wins general elections, Thabo Mbeki takes over as president.