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South African Population
Parent: South Africa
Initial entity stub generated from temp/south_africa_20th_century_timeline_starter.csv.
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Events
19 June 1913Natives Land Act becomes law1919Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union foundedc. 1930Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union collapses1936Native Trust and Land Act extends land restrictions19481948 general election1948–1960Apartheid-era removals1949Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act1950Group Areas Act1950Immorality Amendment Act1950Population Registration Act1951Bantu Authorities Act1952Pass-law system tightened1953Bantu Education law1953Reservation of Separate Amenities Act1955Sophiatown forced removals begin1956Women's March against pass laws1959Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act5 October 1960Referendum supports a South African republic31 May 1961South Africa becomes a republic1966District Six declared a white Group Areac. 1968Black Consciousness movement emerges1976Soweto uprising and aftermath1976Transkei declared 'independent'19 October 1977Black Consciousness organisations banned1983Tricameral parliament constitution20 May 1983Church Street bombing in Pretoria23 December 1985Amanzimtoti shopping-centre bombing1986Abolition of Influx Control Act14 June 1986Magoo's Bar bombing in Durban1990–1994ANC–IFP political violence1990–1994Right-wing resistance and violence during the transition1990–1994Train, hostel and township violence17 March 1992Referendum gives de Klerk a mandate to continue negotiations1994Restitution of Land Rights Act1994–1999Continued KwaZulu-Natal political violence1994–1999PAGAD-era bombings27 April 1994First democratic election1996–1999Truth and Reconciliation Commission process19991999 national electionc. 2000–2004HIV/AIDS treatment struggle and TAC mobilisation2003–presentBroad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act20042004 national election2008Load-shedding crisis begins11–26 May 2008Xenophobic violence2009Jacob Zuma becomes president2015–2017Rhodes 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 imprisonment2024ANC loses majority and Government of National Unity formed2024Load-shedding crisis eases20 December 2024; published January 2025Expropriation Act replaces the 1975 law