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Portuguese explorers came
The Portuguese expolorers pushed their way suth along the Atlantic coast of africa, reaching the Cape of Good Hope. -
Jan van Reibeeck arrived on befalf of the Dutch East India Company
He went there to establish the first permanent European settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. -
The Brirish took over the Dutch East India Company
The British took over the Dutch East India Company, which had become bankrupt, and assimed control of the Cape Colony in South africa. -
The first large group of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish sttlers arrived.
They did not adopt the Afrikaans language or the Afrikaner culture. Their arrival added more complexity to the ethnic mix of the region. -
British Abolished slvaery in all of its colonies.
This made the Boers lost their cheap labor supply. -
The British Government returned some land to Xhosa.
The British Government returned some land to Xhosa. -
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Migrate of Trek Boers
Thousand of Afrikaners migrated north out of what was now the British Cpae Colony. The migration became know as the Great Trek. -
Battle between Zuli and Afrikaners
It came to the symbolize the afrikaner movement. -
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Indian came
Six thousand Indians arrived in Natal as indentured servants, marking the beginning of what became a permanent and highly influential Indian communitu in Shouth Africa -
Afrikaners found diamond
They discovered the first of several huge diamond deposits. -
Excavation of diamond in Kimberley
Excavation of diamond in Kimberley -
Excavation of gold
Excavation of diamond in Kimberley -
Gandhi came to South Africa
Mohandas Gandhi, later called the liberator of India in 1893 to accept a position in an indian law firm. -
Polotical reform in the Afrikaner republic of Transvaal
It weaken the economic control of Afrikaners and to favor the English people living there. -
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South African War
Because the British want to week the Africaaner on ecomomy, the Africaaners began to attack British. -
British won the Anglo-Boer War
The British defeated the Afrikaners in 1902, but htese hopes did not materialize. -
Uinon of South Africa was set
The British Colonies and Afrikaner Republics joined together as the Union of South Africa. -
African National Congress(ANC) was set up
Several hundred conservatove Afrocam ,em fpr,ed the African National Congress to organize Africans and oppose discrimination through petitions and appeals to Great Britain. -
Native land act
It became the first piece of major legislation creating separate areas for Europeans and Africans. -
ANC organized a nonviolent demostration against the passbooks
The passbooks are the books that blacks had to carry with them at all time. -
Government repealed African's right to vote and used 3 white people to represent them.
The government repealed the limited voting right of some Africans had, and installed three white representatives to speak for all backs. -
The Congress Youth League
They tried to make the african National Congress to adope a more confrontational stance and to use mass action to achieve their goals. -
National party got victory in the South African election of 1948
The victory of the National Party in the South African election of 1948 brought conservative Afrikaners to political power. -
Mixed Marriages Act
Which said whites and members of other racial groups could not marry -
Population Registration Act
Which created three official races in South Africa to which all residents would be assigned: White, couloured and African. -
The Group Areas Act
Which began to process of designating every inch of land in SouthAfrica for one ofthe three official race groups. -
The Sippression of Communism Act
Which Defined communism so broadly that any resistance to apartheid policies could be equated with communism. -
Defiance Compaign
The ANC and SAIC saw this as a last chance for the governemnt to change its policies before the, along with the Franchise Action Coundil lauched the Defiance Campaign in 1952 -
Natives Abolition of Passes and Coordiantion of Documents Act
It was the rarget of the Defiance Campaign. -
Nelson Mandela was arristed
Police Arrested 156 people ion c Charges of High treason. -
Alexandra bus boycott
Which demonstrated the power of the people united together against the sustem. -
Protest in Sharpeville
There was a series of small clashes between police and protesters on the morningh March 21. -
Chief Albert Luthuli called for a day of mourning and the start of a stay-at-home campaign.
Thousands of ANC supporters also publicly burned their passbooks. -
Underground meeting
The leadership of the ANC had decided to launch sabotage compaigns against the government. -
bombs in administrative offices in Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, and Durban.
One Saboteur was killed by his own bomb in the attacks. -
Albert Luthuli accepted the Nobel Peace Prize
The government let him out of South Africa to attend the ceremony in Norway fearing that not to do so would cause a world outcry. -
The Sabotage Act
Which gave the government power to arrest anyone it believed threatened the security of the country. -
Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life in prison
Key leaders of both the ANC and PAC were now in prison or exile, and the organization lost some effectiveness. -
Soweto students staged a massive demostration against Afrikaans instruction
The government responded with an armed force. But the riots spread among students from all over central South Africa. -
New South African president F.W. de Klerk
He was known as a conservative but his understanding of the need for modifications in the light of the worsening economic system led him to make significant changes. -
Nelson Mendela was released
de Klerk unconditionally released Nelson Mandela from prison on February 11, 1990 -
de klerk revoved the key apartheir laws from the books
de klerk revoved the key apartheir laws from the books -
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa, following the first truly democratic elections in that country. -
Natives land act
