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Mar 9, 1487
European colonization
Europeans first arrive South Africa in 1487. -
First european settlement
The dutch settle in South Africa in 1652, in the Cape of Good Hope. -
ANC founded
ANC was founded in 1912 in Bloemfontein, with the objetive of defending the black peoples' rights -
Apartheid begins
The National Party installed the Apartheid in 1948, which was a system of racial segregation -
Nelson Mandela sentenced
Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment accused for violence and communism -
Nelson Mandela released from prison
South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk freed Nelson Mandela -
Nelson Mandela became president
In this date, the black people first used his right of sufragge and ANC won the elections. This was the beginning of the end of the Apartheid
