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bores
in 1652, launching a colony that by the end of the 18th century numbered only about 15,000 bores -
independance
in 1795 tried to astablish a independenc republic -
the end
end of the Napoleonic Wars -
great trek
drove about 12,000 Afrikaners to make the great trek north and east into African tribal territory -
gold
gold nine years later brought an influx of outlanders -
resign
forcing Rhodes to resign -
union
to the Union of South Africa, composed of four provinces -
world war ll
Jan Christiaan Smuts brought the nation into World War II on the Allied side against Nationalist opposition -
forced
Over the next halfcentury the nonwhite population of South Africa was forced out of designated whit areas -
black votes removed
Black voters were removed from the voter rolls in -
rights
but he refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
refusiel
but he refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
acts
The Group Areas Acts -
republic
South Africa demanded itself be a republic -
africans moved
forced about 1.5 million Africans to move from cities to rural townships
