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Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good Hope as a refreshment station for the Dutch East India Company.
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The Britain occupied the Cape Colony making Cape Town its military headquarters for the region.
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The second Boer War broke out after Britain rejected the Transvaal ultimatum. The ultimatum had demanded that all disputes between the two states be settled by arbitration; that British troops on the borders be withdrawn; and that troops bound for South Africa by ship should not disembaark
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Cape Town became the seat of the Union Parliament thoug the political center of the Union of South Africa Wold remain in Transvaal to the northeast
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Nativve National Congress founded, later renamed the African National Congress
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Apartheid is the name of the racial institution that was established in 1948 by the National Party that governed South Africa until 1994. The term, wich literally means "apartness," reflected a violently repressive policy designed to Ensure that whites, who compresed 20% of the nation`s population.
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ANC leader Nelson Mandela sentenced to life assassinated
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In 1994, Nelson Mandela, at the age of 77, was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president and F W de Klerk became Mandela’s first deputy. Although the ANC gained a majority vote, they formed the Government of National Unity (GNU), headed by the Mandela.
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At the beginning of 2013, the Government has introduced the National Development Plan (NDP) -2030 as South Africa's long-term socio-economic development plan. This policy was adopted as a cornerstone and blueprint for a future economic and socio-economic development strategy for the country in 2012/13