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South African Government
Parent: South Africa
Initial entity stub generated from temp/south_africa_20th_century_timeline_starter.csv.
In this family
- Constitutional Assembly
- Eskom
- Government
- Government Authorities
- Independent Electoral Commission
- Institutions
- Jan Smuts
- Judiciary
- Municipalities
- Parliament
- President
- Public Institutions
- Security Institutions
- South African State
- State Authorities
- State Institutions
- Transitional Executive Council
- Truth And Reconciliation Commission
- Union Of South Africa
- Western Cape Government
Events
31 May 1910Formation of the Union of South Africa1911Mines and Works Act entrenches the colour bar19 June 1913Natives Land Act becomes law1914–1918South African participation in the First World War1922Rand Revolt1924Hertzog's National Party–Labour Pact government1936Native Trust and Land Act extends land restrictions1939–1945Wartime urbanisation6 September 1939South Africa enters the Second World War8 May 1945Second World War ends12–16 August 1946African Mine Workers' Strike19481948 general election1948–1960Apartheid-era removals1948–1960Systematisation of apartheid legislation1950Immorality Amendment Act1952Pass-law system tightened1953Bantu Education law1960–1976Regionalisation of the conflict1960sSabotage campaigns21 March 1960Sharpeville massacre31 May 1961South Africa becomes a republic9 October 1963–12 June 1964Rivonia Trial26 August 1966South African Border / Bush War begins1975–1989Cross-border war and regional operations1976Soweto uprising and aftermath12 September 1977Death of Steve Biko in detention1983End Conscription Campaign founded21 July 1985–June 1990State of emergency declared1986Abolition of Influx Control Act1987–1988Battle of Cuito Cuanavale1989South African Border / Bush War ends1990–1994Negotiated transition1990–1994Train, hostel and township violence1991Apartheid repeal package1993End Conscription Campaign ends1993Interim Constitution9 December 1993Transitional Executive Council Act1994Formation of the South African National Defence Force1994Restitution of Land Rights Act1994–1999Continued KwaZulu-Natal political violence1994–1999Establishment and early operation of the Constitutional Court27 April 1994First democratic election1995Labour Relations Act1995Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation / TRC Act1996Constitution certified after revision1996Final Constitution adopted1996–1999Truth and Reconciliation Commission processDecember 1996Constitution signed4 February 19971996 Constitution comes into force19991999 national electionc. 2000–2004HIV/AIDS treatment struggle and TAC mobilisation20042004 national election2007–2008Polokwane conference and recall of Mbeki2008Load-shedding crisis begins11–26 May 2008Xenophobic violence2009Jacob Zuma becomes president2010FIFA World Cup hosted in South Africa16 August 2012Marikana massacre2013Death of Nelson Mandela2015–2017Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fallc. 2016–2018State capture crisis intensifies2018Zuma resigns and Ramaphosa becomes president2020–2022COVID-19 pandemic and hard lockdown8–17 July 2021July unrest following Zuma's imprisonment9 November 2023Slangrivier title-deed programme reaches its final handover2024ANC loses majority and Government of National Unity formed2024Load-shedding crisis eases