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The first serious effort to establish a settlement, with the arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck
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The british arrive in Cape Town, the Dutch surrender in 1795 is known as the Capitualation of Rustenburg
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When diamonds and gold were found, the British wanted to put those areas under british control. This resulted in the Boer war, the british won and the Boer republics became british colonies.
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On the 31 may 1910, eight years after the Boers had made peace with the English, South Africa became a nation
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The struggle against injustice and the systematic oppression of black people started in 1912, efforts were stepped up when an organization called the African National Congress was founded in 1923
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A system of racial segregation
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nelson mandela was sentenced to life in prison
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Nelson Mandela, Africas first black president, died