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Portuguese navigator who was the first European to travel round the southern tip of Africa
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Portuguese explorer who lands on Natal coast. This opened up a network for trade to the Indian Ocean.
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Discovered the Cape Colony of Table Bay with the East India Trading Company. Established a supply base at this point. Settlers settled on the land creating the Cape Colony.
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On this "Great Trek" the Boers founded the Orange Free State and the Transvaal
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Diamonds discovered at Kimberley. This attracted many settlers in a sort if "diamond rush". This made the population to 50,000 within five years. The discovery ended the isolation of the Boers and changed South African history.
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Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the British Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, convinced the Transvaal government to accept British annexation. He also convinced people that the Zulu posed a threat to the peace.
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The boers were the farmers. This sparks the first Anglo-Boer War in the Transvaal. This conflict ends with a negotiated peace.
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Contained the largest deposit of gold.
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Boer Republican commandos attacked Natal and Cape Colony
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This was formed by the former British colonies of the Cape and Natal, and the Boer republics of Transvaal, and Orange Free State.
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The Native National Congress was founded, later renamed the African National Congress (ANC)
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This was introduced to prevent blacks, except thise living in Cape province, from buying land outside reserves.
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South Africa supported the Allied nations during World War One
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Population Registration Act authorizes racial classification in South Africa. Each person in South Africa must register according to what race they are. This is because of the system of apartheid.
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The dismantling of apartheid began in 1990. But in 1994, this signaled the absolute end of the apartheid segregation system in South Africa
