Apartheid

South Africa and the apartheid

By Imondon

  • National Party win with Malan becoming PM

  • ANC Youth League's program of action adopted

  • Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act passed

  • Population Registration Act

  • Suppression of Communism Act

  • Group Areas Act

  • Prevention of illegal Squatting Act

  • Separate Representation of Voters Act

  • Bantu Authorities Act

  • ANC leads defiance campaign

  • Pass Laws Act

  • Bantu Education Act

  • Strijdom becomes PM

  • Freedom Charter

  • Tomlinson Commission on the homelands

  • Verwoerd becomes PM

  • Cato Manor riots

  • PAC and Progressive Party founded

  • Harold Macmillan 'wind of change' speech

  • Sarpeville massacre

    69 dead
    187 injured

  • ANC/PAC banned

  • SA leaves the Commonwealth and becomes a republic

  • Umkhonto we Sizwe founded

  • Mandela captured and imprisoned

  • Rivonia trials

  • Transkei becomes self-governing

  • Mandela's Rivonia statement

    Said to get them off the death penalty

  • Afrikaner Verligte movement starts

  • Vorster becomes PM

    After Verwoerd is assassinated

  • Black Consciousness movement starts

  • Ciskei homeland created

  • Winnie imprisoned

  • ANC Morogoro conference in Tanzania

  • SASO (South African Students' Organisation) is formed

  • New Zealand rugby team tour SA with several Maori players

  • Black People's Convention founded to direct Black Consciousness

  • PUTCO strike

  • Durban Strikes

  • Independent trade unions founded

  • Global oil crisis

  • Banning orders against SASO and Steve Biko

  • Strikes across Natal

  • Transvaal Bantu Education Department decides Afrikaans should be used in African schools

  • Vorster tours West Africa

  • Relaunch of Inkatha

  • End of Portuguese rule in Mozambique and Angola

  • Transkei homeland becomes independent

  • Student revolts in Soweto

    the end sees 575 dead

  • Death of Steve Biko

  • Bophuthatswana becomes independent

  • Botha becomes PM

    kicks of the reform era

  • Congress of South African Students formed

  • UN cultural and academic boycott of South Africa

  • 'Free Nelson Mandela' slogan adopted by the AAM

  • ANC headquarters in London bombed

  • Tri-cameral parliament and new presidential system

  • UDF lauched

  • Mandela birthday concert held at Alexandra Palace

  • Beginning of the Vaal uprising

  • ANC call fro the townships to be made ungovernable

  • COSATU lauched

  • State of emergency

  • Height of the township insurrection

  • Alexandra 6 day war

  • Second state of emergency and political crack-down by government

  • Mandela's 70th birthday broadcast to 500 million

  • De Klerk becomes president

  • ANC and other movements unbanned

  • Nelson and others released

  • CODESA

  • Boipatong massacre and other violence in townships ends talks

  • Non-racial democratic election

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