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Settlers from the Dutch East India Company arrive in South Africa. Photo (http://www.zamboanga.com/html/spanish_armada_in_early_1600s.htm)
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The decendents of Dutch, also known as Boers declare war on Britian.
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An act that Unified South Africa, and preserved African rights, but never gave them palimentary rights. Date (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa)
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Jan Christiaan Smutts, prime minister of South Africa, gets South Africa involed.
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South Africa is a charter member of the UN.
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Malan`s Nationalist party is elected and started the apartheid laws.
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This act restricted Africans from going into urban, industrial, and agricultural areas.
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This required all people to carry cards to classify them.
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This act forced many Africans into designated areas.
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It made all Africans carry books, that were kind of like passports.
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70 Africans were killed because they didn`t take take their books.
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After the Sharpsville Massacre, the British, forced by law, ordered any organizations against Apartheid to be banned
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His arrest sparked some riots.
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A town started a riot which spread to other towns, and resulted in 600 killed.
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Apartheid finally came to an end in 1990 when president F.W. de Klerk announced a formal end to the apartheid.
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Future president Nelson Mandela is released from prision after a life sentence.
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The first democratic election for Africans, and whites.
