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Passport to Freedom

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Alexandra
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The local people
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Marks Family
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Significant Dates

• 1953 The Apartheid Government enacted The Bantu
  Education Act, which established a Black
  Education Department in the Department of Native
  Affairs. Under the legislation, authored by Dr.
  Hendrik Verwoerd blacks were to be taught only
  menial skills that would prepare them to work in
  the homelands or do menial labor for whites. 

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1960 

• March 21 -- At least 180 black Africans were
  injured and 69 killed when South African police
  opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators,
  who were protesting against apartheid pass laws,
  at the township of Sharpeville in the Transvaal.
  The event came to be known as the Sharpeville
  Massacre. In response to Sharpeville, the
  government outlawed the African National Congress
  (ANC). 

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1962

• Nelson Mandela, leader of the ANC, was sentenced
  to life in prison for sabotage and treason and
  was sent to Robben Island, a prison off the coast
  of Cape Town. 

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1975 

• Schools were starved of funds -- the government
  spent 644 rands a year on a white child's
  education but only 42 rands on a black child. To
  cut costs, the Department of Bantu Education
  announced it was removing one grade (Standard 6)
  from primary schools. This meant that 257,505
  pupils had to try to enroll in secondary schools
  that had space for only 38,000. Chaos ensued. 
• The Department of Education also issued a decree
  stating that Afrikaans was to become the official
  language of instruction in all black schools.
  Students objected to being taught in the language
  of their oppressors. 

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1976

• On June 16 Between 15,000 and 20,000 high-school
  students in Soweto marched in protest, calling
  for better education for blacks. Police responded
  by releasing attack dogs and firing teargas and
  live bullets into the crowd. Students threw rocks
  and started setting fires to symbols of
  apartheid, such as government buildings and beer
  halls. Army helicopters and Anti-Urban Terrorism
  units arrived. The battle between students and
  police continued into the night. Some estimated
  the death toll at 200. Many more were injured.
  The rioting spread to other towns and the
  government closed the schools

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1978 

• With the help of Stan Smith, Mark departed from
  Johannesburg and flew to the United States to
  attend Limestone College in Gaffney, SC on a
  tennis scholarship

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1981 

• Mathabane transferred to Dowling College in
  Oakdale, NY, where he became the first black
  editor of the campus newspaper, The Lions Roar. 

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1983 

• Mark began writing Kaffir Boy while still in
  college. He graduated cum laude from Dowling with
  a B.A. in Economics, then continued working on
  the book. 

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1987

• Mark married Gail Ernsberger, a fellow
  journalist and writer.
• Oprah Winfrey read Kaffir Boy, invited Mark to
  appear on her show and arranged for his family to
  be reunited with him in the U.S. A few weeks
  later, Kaffir Boy appeared on The New York Times
  bestsellers list. 

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1989 

• Kaffir boy in America, the sequel to Kaffir Coy
  was published and was featured on New York Times
  bestseller list. 

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1990

• On February 11,1990 Nelson Mandela was released
  from prison.
• Mandela was 71 years old when he was released
  from Victor-Verster prison.
• He'd spent 27 years in apartheid jails

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1993 

• Nelson Mandela accepted the 1993 Nobel Peace
  Prize on behalf of all South Africans who
  suffered and sacrificed to bring peace to the
  country. 

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1994 

• Marks father, Jackson, died of cancer in
  Alexandra Township at age 72. In loving memory of
  his father, Mark organized a funeral procession
  that included several large buses to transport
  hundreds of citizens of Alexandra to the burial
  site. 

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1997 

• Leading a delegation of White House Fellows, Mark
  returned to South Africa to visit for the first
  time since leaving home in 1978. He was reunited
  with family members and childhood friends he had
  not seen in 19 years. 

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2001 

• Mark and his family moved from North Carolina to
  Portland, Oregon. He is working on a novel and
  continues to lecture at schools across the
  country

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2003

• Marks grandmother, Ellen Mabaso, died of
  natural causes in Alexandra Township. She was
  84. 

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South Africa
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Books
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Mark and friends
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Mark and his family on the Oprah
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Meeting and Greeting
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Marks Family