10 Interesting Fact About The history and impact of the Civil Rights Movement in South Africa

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• The struggle of civil rights in South Africa began in the 19th century with a struggle to get political rights.
• In 1948 the National Party won the election in South Africa and started the Apartheid regime.
• In 1952, the Rasis Regulation Law was rolled out which removed the civil rights of South African citizens.
• The struggle to revoke the Apartheid Law began in the 1950s with organizations such as the African National Congress (ANC).
• In 1960, ANC and other organizations launched a broad program of civil resistance against Apartheid.
• In 1960 too, a man named Steve Biko began an anti-apartheid group named Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
• In 1962, Nelson Mandela was tried in court and imprisoned for life.
• In 1985, South African President P.W. Botha offers a liberation mandela if he denies all forms of civil resistance.
• In 1990, Mandela was released and began to negotiate with the government to revoke apartheid.
• In 1994, the first reasonable general election in South Africa was held and Mandela was elected as president.