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Apartheid put into action by National Party
it was the election of the Nationalist Party in 1948 that marked the beginning of legalized racism's harshest features -
Mixed Marriage Act
Mixed Marriages Act was designed to "protect" White political and social dominance by preventing a handful of people from blurring the line between White society and everyone else in South Africa. -
Population Registration Act
required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid -
Sharpeville Massacre
On March 21, 1960, police officers in a Black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive laws. Sixty‐nine protestors were killed. -
Township Uprising
Sometimes known as the township revolt and driven both by local grievances and by opposition to apartheid -
Rivonia Trial
The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in apartheid-era South Africa after a group of anti-apartheid activists were arrested on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia -
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwood is Assassinated
On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed several times by parliamentary aide Dimitri Tsafendas. -
Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act
defined Blacks living throughout South Africa as legal citizens of the homelands designated for their particular ethnic groups -
Nelson Mandela Released from Prison
Mandela wound up spending 27 years in prison for leading the African National Congress and nearly serving life possibly the death penalty -
Nelson Mandela becomes president
The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner and later President of South America