2014 Event A U.S. lawsuit against IBM and Ford Motor Company, seeking damages for the companies' transactions with the former apartheid government, has been dismissed; the transactions were conducted by foreign units and are not under jurisdiction of U.S. law 1994 Event Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands 1991 Event South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws 1991 Event President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws 1990 Event President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid 1990 Event South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid 1988 Event South African apartheid regime bans the UDF 1981 Event South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested 1976 Event U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1964 Event South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies 1961 Event U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid 1960 Event General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid 1955 Event U.N. disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics 1952 Event Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa 1949 Event South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages 1948 Event South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy 1926 Birthday Gerrit A. Kooy, Dutch sociologist, Apartheid and work in South Africa
