The Apartheid

By Hayden Symmonds

  • National Party

    Apartheid is adopted in South Africa when the National party comes into power.
  • Period: to

    The Apartheid Major Dates

  • D.F. Malan becomes president

  • Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

  • Group Areas Act passed

    The population is classified by race.

  • Bantu Homelands Act

  • Abolition of passes and co-ordination of Documents Act

    Fricans were required to carru identity documents

  • Bantu education act

    seperate education for blacks and white

  • ANC Banned

    70 Demonstrators killed at Sharpeville

  • Sharpel Massacre

    69 people died

  • Mandela Imprisoned

    Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison after Rivonia trial< charged with high treason

  • District Six declared White town

  • Verwoerd Assassinated

    Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd Assassinated

  • The "Homelands"

    More than 300 people forcibly resetteled into black homelands.

  • Uprising in Soweto

    More than 600 protesters killed in riots between protestors and security forces