South Africa Dates

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  • British capture Boers

    British captured the Boers

  • The Great Trek

    British abolished slavery
  • Boer War

    Boer War

    Britain fought against the 2 Afrikaner republics to cement control of the region.

  • British rule in S.A

    Britain forces the Transvaal and Orange Free State into the British empire.

  • Union of South Africa

    Union of South Africa formed.

  • Union of South Africa

    Union unites Cape Colony and Natal with the other two as Union of South Africa

  • WW2

    South Africa joins Britiain against Nazis.

  • National Party win

    National Party won the election, D.F. Malan is PM.
    Universal declaration of human rights made.

  • Guhu

    Voortrekker Monument
    ANC Youth League created
    Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act passed

  • Acts

    Population Registration Act
    Suppression of Communism Act
    Group areas Act

  • Acts 2

    Prevention of illegal squatting act
    Separate representation of voters act
    Bantu authorities act

  • Act3

    Pass laws act
    ANC leads defiance campaign

  • Bantu education act

  • Freedom charter

    Freedom charter
    Tomlinson commission on the homelands

  • Sekhukhuneland revolt

    Sekhukhuneland Revolt
    H. F. Verwoerd becomes prime minister
    African opposition peaks

  • Cato manor riots