South Africa By prisila Apr 16, 1450 The city, part of which is shown here, flourished form about A.D 1100 to 1450 Apr 15, 1600 The dutch settled in south africa Apr 14, 1800 .The british first came to South Africa in the early 1800 , Apr 16, 1890 In the 1890s, the british controlled the area and called it Rhodesia Apr 14, 1902 Later ,the discovery of dimonds and gold attracted many british settled Apr 14, 1910 in 1910 afrikaner and british territories became the union of south africa Apr 14, 1912 Black south africans founded the african national congress in 1912 Apr 14, 1948 in 1948 the whites set up a system of apartheid made it ilegal for different races. Apr 14, 1964 in 1964 the british colony became independent. Apr 15, 1975 From the 1500 until its independence in 1975, angola was a colony of portugal Apr 15, 1976 Under french and then british rule, it finally became independent in 1976 Apr 14, 1980 since 1980 the govervent has tried to redistibute land to africans. Apr 14, 1991 many countries cut off trade with south africa Apr 14, 1994 south africa held its first democratic elections in april 1994 Apr 15, 1996 After nearly 80 years of british colinial rule, Botswana became independent in 1996 Apr 15, 2000 Such floods drove over one million people from their home in early 2000
