History of South Africa

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  • 1650's

    1650's
    The Dutch were the first European trading power to set up a permanent settlement in South Africa. In 1652 the powerful Dutch East India Company built a fort and established a supply station under the command of Jan Van Riebeeck on a site that later became Cape Town.

  • 1660's

    1660's
    The first horses arrive in South Africa

  • 1790's

    1790's
    During the 1790s the British moved into the Cape and there was conflict between the British and Dutch.

  • 1902

    1902
    After 1902 the British controlled South Africa while the Boers (Dutch now called Afrikaners) built up large farms or took jobs in the city.

  • 1948

    1948
    In 1948 the government introduced apartheid (a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race)

  • 1981

    1981
    In 1981, there were protests in New Zealand over the Springboks coming to New Zealand due to the then South African government's policy of apartheid