Apartheid Timeline

1959; PAC was started. by ex-anc members

1966; Vorwoerd was assasinated

1970; student uprising in Soweto leads to 600 dead

1990; Ban lifted on ANC and Mandella released 11 Feb

1994; ANC wins South Africas first democratic election Mandella becomes the first black president.

1910; Union of South Africa dictated all and every detail of black peoples futures.

1912; The ANC was founded to cut across tribal divisions.

1943; ANC youth league was started. Led by a young lawyer (Anton Lembede)

1949; A huge fracture in the Youth league occurred, the younger members wanted to make a more militant approach to get equality.

1950, 1 May; Freedom day is organized and ran by the ANC resulting in the "Suppression of communism act".

1953; The Defiance campaign ended.

1952; The Defiancecampaign was started members breaking a series of the petty laws in an effort to bring to light the power and the negativity of the petty laws

1955: The Freedom Charter was drafted. designed to end pass laws peacefully.

1956: Suppression of communism trials began

1961; Suppression of communism trials ended