29 May 1950 - 'Non-Whites' protest against new apartheid laws
18 June 1959 - 50,000 South Africans riot over slum clearance
03 Feb 1960 - Macmillan speaks of 'winds of change' in Africa
25 Mar 1960 - All Black political organisations outlawed
21 Mar 1960 - Scores die in Sharpville shoot-out (SA RULED BY ENGLAND)
31 May 1961 - South Africa becomes a republic
10 Dec 1961 - Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony
25 May 1963 - African states unite against White rule
12 June 1964 - Mandela jailed for life
22 May 1970 - South Africa cricket tours called off
23 Jan 1971 - Britain allowed to sell arms to South Africa
16 Jun 1976 - Soweto protest turns violent
12 Sep 1977 - Black rights leader Steve Biko dies in prison
02 Dec 1977 - South African police cleared of Biko's death
01 Jan 1978 - Newspaper editor flees South Africa
28 Sep 1978 - PW Botha is elected prime minister
04 Jun 1979 - President Vorster resigns after 'Muldegate' scandal
20 May 1983 - Car Bomb in South Africa kills 17 (PLANTED BY THE ANC)
15 Jun 1985 - First mixed marriage celebrated (BEFORE 1994)
19 May 1986 - South African raids wreck peace bid
25 May 1986 - 30,000 expelled from Crossroads squatter camps
07 Sep 1986 - Tutu first Black Archbishop in Southern Africa (BEFORE 1994)
02 Feb 1990 - De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa
11 Feb 1990 - Freedom for Nelson Mandela
14 May 1991 - Mandel's wife jailed for kidnaps
18 Mar 1992 - South Africa votes for change
07 Sep 1992 - Troops kill 24 at ANC rally
10 May 1994 - Mandela becomes South Africa first Black president
02 Nov 1995 - Ex-minister charged with apartheid murders
29 Oct 1998 - Apartheid report accuses South African Leaders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20/newsid_4326000/4326975.stm
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