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Europeans set sail around south of Africa, in search of wealth and other trades like spices and silk.
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In the 1500s, European traders started to sell Africans guns and European made goods in exchange for slaves.
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The Europeans began to build trading posts in Africa in the 1500s and by the early 1800s, they were taking over another country for their central resources and route's they had to spare.
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Dutch found colony of Cape of Good Hope
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First Anglo-boer war
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British land troops in Egypt
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Almost all Africans suffered because of this terrible colony. They were forced to work under colonial rule as their land was taken , they were forced to work for little or no pay and any attempt to rebel.
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Pondoland, the northern part of the Eastern Cape, falls under British control.
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The second boer war starts.
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Transvaal becomes apart of the British empire
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Four self governing colonies form the Union of South Africa
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In 1910 South Africa was granted independence by Great Britain.
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The African national congress is formed
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Land act is introduced to prevent black people from buying land outside of preserves.
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South Africa becomes a sovereign state in common wealth
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White South Africans called Afrikaner’s made an apartheid law.Meaning segregation on grounds other than race.
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In 1956 Sudan gained its independence from Great Britain.
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By the end of the 1960s, all African colonies were independent.
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he protested aparheid. In 1964, Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his actions.
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The Sudanese civil war after 2 decade 2.5 million dead
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Peter Gabriel comes out with a song inspired by Biko because of his tragic death by the cops.
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F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa in 1989.
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F.W de Klerk took part in the end of apratheid and released Nelson Mandela from prison.
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Mandela and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in ending apartheid.
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South Africa held it’s first open elections which Nelson Mandela was elected the new president of South Africa
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Sudan gains independence