community
Affected Communities
Parent: Communities
Initial entity stub generated from temp/south_africa_20th_century_timeline_starter.csv.
Events
1919Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union foundedc. 1930Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union collapses1948–1960Apartheid-era removals1949Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act1950Group Areas Act1950Immorality Amendment Act1951Bantu Authorities Act1952Pass-law system tightened1953Reservation of Separate Amenities Act1955Sophiatown forced removals begin1956Women's March against pass laws1959Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act1966District Six declared a white Group Area1976Transkei declared 'independent'1983Tricameral parliament constitution20 May 1983Church Street bombing in Pretoria23 December 1985Amanzimtoti shopping-centre bombing14 June 1986Magoo's Bar bombing in Durbanc. 2000–2004HIV/AIDS treatment struggle and TAC mobilisation2003–presentBroad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act2008Load-shedding crisis begins11–26 May 2008Xenophobic violence2015–2017Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must FallApril–May 2015Xenophobic attacks and peace marchesSeptember 2019Xenophobic attacks and marches2020–2022COVID-19 pandemic and hard lockdown2021–2022Operation Dudula and anti-migrant marches8–17 July 2021July unrest following Zuma's imprisonment2024Load-shedding crisis eases20 December 2024; published January 2025Expropriation Act replaces the 1975 law