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South Africa's History

By sebastienleze
  • Period: to

    Settlement

    The country is settled by the Dutch, the French Huguenots and the Germans.

  • First Boer War

    Won by the Boers (Dutch Settlers).

  • Start of the Second Boer War

    Opposing Britain & the Afrikaners (descendantsa of the Dutch colonists).

  • End of the Second Boer War

    Won by Britain
  • South Africans Act

    South Africans Act

    The differents states become the Union of South Africa wich enters the Commonwealth.

  • Creation of National Party.

    Political dominationof Afrikaners who were in favour of separating the black and white communities.

  • The National Party is created.

    Apartheid policy introduced. Whites populations is seen as superior and are seperate from Blacks, Coloured and Asians. All place are segregated. Blacks people live in township within "homelands".

  • The U.O.A. become a republic and leaves the Commonwealth.

    Opposition parties, like the ANC (African National Congress), are banned and their leaders emprisoned.

  • Riots against apartheid in the black township of Soweto

  • De Klerk become president, Mandela is released from prison and apartheid laws are abolished.

  • Mandela and President De Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Nelson Mandela become president.

  • New democratic constitution.

  • Thabo Mbeki become president.

    Programs of redistribution are etablished to help with the huge remaining disparities between the economic situations of the Whites and the Blacks.