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in 1652, launching a colony that by the end of the 18th century numbered only about 15,000 bores
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in 1795 tried to astablish a independenc republic
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end of the Napoleonic Wars
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drove about 12,000 Afrikaners to make the great trek north and east into African tribal territory
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gold nine years later brought an influx of outlanders
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forcing Rhodes to resign
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to the Union of South Africa, composed of four provinces
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Jan Christiaan Smuts brought the nation into World War II on the Allied side against Nationalist opposition
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Over the next halfcentury the nonwhite population of South Africa was forced out of designated whit areas
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Black voters were removed from the voter rolls in
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but he refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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but he refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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The Group Areas Acts
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South Africa demanded itself be a republic
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forced about 1.5 million Africans to move from cities to rural townships
