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Apr 16, 1450
The city, part of which is shown here, flourished form about A.D 1100 to 1450
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The dutch settled in south africa
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.The british first came to South Africa in the early 1800
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In the 1890s, the british controlled the area and called it Rhodesia
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Later ,the discovery of dimonds and gold attracted many british settled
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in 1910 afrikaner and british territories became the union of south africa
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Black south africans founded the african national congress in 1912
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in 1948 the whites set up a system of apartheid made it ilegal for different races.
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in 1964 the british colony became independent.
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From the 1500 until its independence in 1975, angola was a colony of portugal
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Under french and then british rule, it finally became independent in 1976
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since 1980 the govervent has tried to redistibute land to africans.
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many countries cut off trade with south africa
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south africa held its first democratic elections in april 1994
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After nearly 80 years of british colinial rule, Botswana became independent in 1996
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Such floods drove over one million people from their home in early 2000
