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National Party win with Malan becoming PM
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ANC Youth League's program of action adopted
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Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act passed
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Population Registration Act
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Suppression of Communism Act
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Group Areas Act
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Prevention of illegal Squatting Act
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Separate Representation of Voters Act
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Bantu Authorities Act
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ANC leads defiance campaign
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Pass Laws Act
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Bantu Education Act
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Strijdom becomes PM
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Freedom Charter
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Tomlinson Commission on the homelands
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Verwoerd becomes PM
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Cato Manor riots
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PAC and Progressive Party founded
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Harold Macmillan 'wind of change' speech
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Sarpeville massacre
69 dead
187 injured -
ANC/PAC banned
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SA leaves the Commonwealth and becomes a republic
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Umkhonto we Sizwe founded
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Mandela captured and imprisoned
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Rivonia trials
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Transkei becomes self-governing
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Mandela's Rivonia statement
Said to get them off the death penalty -
Afrikaner Verligte movement starts
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Vorster becomes PM
After Verwoerd is assassinated -
Black Consciousness movement starts
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Ciskei homeland created
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Winnie imprisoned
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ANC Morogoro conference in Tanzania
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SASO (South African Students' Organisation) is formed
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New Zealand rugby team tour SA with several Maori players
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Black People's Convention founded to direct Black Consciousness
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PUTCO strike
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Durban Strikes
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Independent trade unions founded
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Global oil crisis
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Banning orders against SASO and Steve Biko
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Strikes across Natal
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Transvaal Bantu Education Department decides Afrikaans should be used in African schools
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Vorster tours West Africa
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Relaunch of Inkatha
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End of Portuguese rule in Mozambique and Angola
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Transkei homeland becomes independent
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Student revolts in Soweto
the end sees 575 dead -
Death of Steve Biko
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Bophuthatswana becomes independent
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Botha becomes PM
kicks of the reform era -
Congress of South African Students formed
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UN cultural and academic boycott of South Africa
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'Free Nelson Mandela' slogan adopted by the AAM
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ANC headquarters in London bombed
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Tri-cameral parliament and new presidential system
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UDF lauched
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Mandela birthday concert held at Alexandra Palace
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Beginning of the Vaal uprising
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ANC call fro the townships to be made ungovernable
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COSATU lauched
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State of emergency
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Height of the township insurrection
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Alexandra 6 day war
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Second state of emergency and political crack-down by government
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Mandela's 70th birthday broadcast to 500 million
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De Klerk becomes president
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ANC and other movements unbanned
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Nelson and others released
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CODESA
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Boipatong massacre and other violence in townships ends talks
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Non-racial democratic election