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North settles starts joining the San and Khoikhoi people.
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The Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias is the first person from Europe to discovered the South Afika area.
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The Dutch East India Company represent Jan van Riebeeck founds the Cape Colony at Table Bay and is the first European colony.
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The British forces take over the Dutch cape colony. In 1803 the area is returned to the Netherlands but then again become the British Colony again 1806.
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Shaka Zulu creates fighting force and expand Zulu empire. Later the Zulu empire were defeated by the British empire.
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Boers found the orange Free State and the Transvaal and leave the cape colony.
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Diamonds are discovered at Kimberly.
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The first Angelo Boer war, between the Boers and the British,binging and ends with a negotiated peace.
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In Transvaal gold is discovered wich started the gold rush.
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The second Angelo Boer war begins. This time the British empire succeed and take over the Dutch colonies.
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The British empire form the union of South Africa, including the cape and natal colonies but also the transvaal and Orange Free State. 2 years later the Native National Congress, later African National Congress who fights for the black lives.
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The policy of apartheid becomes official when the National party takes the power of South Africa.
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The South African population are now divided by races. ANC, led by Nelson Mandela, responds with a campaign of civil refusal.
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Nelson Mandela sentenced to a life in prison.
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Nelson Mandela were released from prison after 27 years and 1994 he becomes the first black president in South Africa.