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Dutch settlers arrive in South Africa, in 1756, they import slaves from West Africa, Malaysia, and India, establishing the dominance of whites over non-whites in the region.
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Britain relinquished control of the Cape colonies briefly before reconquering the area in 1806.
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Shaka Zulu created the Zulu Kingdom in much of southern Africa, and united many similar African tribes to create a unified empire.
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Middle-class settlers from England moved to the rural areas around the colonies in order to create a "buffer zone" between the warring Boers and the Xhosa, to no avail. Within three years, fifty percent of the settlers had moved back to urban cities in south Africa.
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This region north and east of the Orange River is where Boer settlers moved and fought with the native African population for control of the land. The British finally moved in and took over in 1843 in order to establish sugar plantations, but found resistance from the Zulu tribes.
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Diamond mining begins in South Africa. Africans are given the most dangerous jobs, are paid far less than white workers, and are housed in fenced, patrolled barracks. Oppressive conditions and constant surveillance keep Africans from organizing for better wages and working conditions.
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In south Africa act take almost all of political rights of Africa three of the county's four states
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today, in 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calling for all the people to end economic, military relations with our country.
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South Africa mine workers are paid twelve times less than their white counterparts and are made to work the most dangerous jobs. Over 75,000 Africans go on strike to support for higher wages. Police use violence to clam down unnamed workers back to their jobs. To the effect to that over 1,000 workers are injured or killed.
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Decmeber 16, 1976 is when childern were shot down at school.
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Steve biko (biko) was killed September 9, 1977, because two plocie beat him to death.
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Yugoslavaian Dictator Marshal Tito dies.
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Nelson Mandela was conditional release from the prison sentence he had been serving since the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial in 1964.
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For almost 350 years, Africa American people in South Africa had been picked to exceedingly unruled laws designed, then to subjugate them and incorporate their lands into the British Empire, and secondly to turn them in labour reserves that ensured privilege to a White minority.
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British missionaries came and criticize the racist practises of the Boers. They urge the Boers to treat the Africans nice. Boers justify their practises in the belief that they're superior to Africans.
