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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwood is Assassinated
A uniformed parliamentary messenger called Dimitri Tatenda's Stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times -
Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act
An act ruled that all blacks would assume the nationality of one of the homelands, even if they never set foot in it. -
Township uprising
Driven by both local grievances by oppositions to apartheid -
Nelson Mandela Released from Prison
Nelson ended up spending 27 years in prison and got released by the current president. the president released him because it would help the ANC -
Nelson Mandela Becomes President
Became president on May 10 1994. Nelson was president of south Africa and ended on 14 June 1999