South African apartheid timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 9 Nov 2017
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Created byMax Shirley
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Events
21 March: Sharepville Massacre,
death of 69 protestorsFeburary 1960:
Harold Macmillan's
'wind of change' speech30 March:
State of Emergency
declared in South Africa
and political parties
bannedOctober 1960:
Referendum on
whether to become a
republicMarch 1961:
South Africa leave
the CommonwealthJune 1961:
ANC form
uMkhonto weSizweSeptember 1961:
PAC form Poqo1963-64:
Rivonia Trial and
imprisonment of
ANC leaders1962:
Mandela
captured and
imprisoned1962:
Cuban Missle
Crisis1962:
UN pass voluntary
trade embargo on
South Africa1963: UN pass
voluntary arms
embargo on
South Africa1964: Labour
government in
Britain enforce
arms embargo16 December 1961:
First MK bomb attack
(Dingaan's Day)1963: Poqo commit
Mbashe Bridge Killings
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