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The Dutch East India Company landed the first European settlers on the Cape of Good Hope
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Black people VS. white people. The white people steal the land from the black people.
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Britain took permanent posession of Cape Colony
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Gold is discovered in Witwatersrand, South Africa
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South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations
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South African government established the first of the Bantustans
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the Transkei, as the homeland of the Xhosa people, and granted it limited self-government
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severe shortage of skilled labor led to lifting limits on African wages, and granting Africans the right to strike and organize unions. Unions, churches, and students organized protests throughout the 1970s and 80s.
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Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, and Venda were also granted "independence," but no nation other than South Africa recognized them. Lebowa, Kangwane, Gazankulu, Qwaqwa, KwaZulu, and KwaNdebele were declared "self-governing"
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segregating facilities were repealed or fell into disuse
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a multiracial forum led by de Klerk and Mandela, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), began working on a new constitution.
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President de Klerk obtained the repeal of the remaining apartheid laws and called for the drafting of a new constitution.
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Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Bantustans were abolished and the territories were reabsorbed into the nation of South Africa.
