Theme
Apartheid
Events involving apartheid.
Initial theme stub generated from temp/south_africa_20th_century_timeline_starter.csv.
Events
19481948 general election1948–1960Apartheid-era removals1948–1960Systematisation of apartheid legislation1949Prohibition 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 Act1966Assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd1966District Six declared a white Group Area26 August 1966South African Border / Bush War begins1976Transkei declared 'independent'19 October 1977Black Consciousness organisations banned1983Tricameral parliament constitution20 May 1983Church Street bombing in Pretoria1985Rubicon speech and Botha reform impasse23 December 1985Amanzimtoti shopping-centre bombing1986Abolition of Influx Control Act14 June 1986Magoo's Bar bombing in Durban1987–1988Battle of Cuito Cuanavale1989South African Border / Bush War ends1991Apartheid repeal package