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South African apartheid timeline
Created by
Max Shirley
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9 Nov 2017
Events
21 March: Sharepville Massacre, death of 69 protestors
Feburary 1960: Harold Macmillan's 'wind of change' speech
30 March: State of Emergency declared in South Africa and political parties banned
October 1960: Referendum on whether to become a republic
March 1961: South Africa leave the Commonwealth
June 1961: ANC form uMkhonto weSizwe
September 1961: PAC form Poqo
1963-64: Rivonia Trial and imprisonment of ANC leaders
1962: Mandela captured and imprisoned
1962: Cuban Missle Crisis
1962: UN pass voluntary trade embargo on South Africa
1963: UN pass voluntary arms embargo on South Africa
1964: Labour government in Britain enforce arms embargo
16 December 1961: First MK bomb attack (Dingaan's Day)
1963: Poqo commit Mbashe Bridge Killings
