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African Colonial Period
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Dutch East India Company finds South Africa
Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company, founds the Cape Colony at Table Bay which is the southern part of South Africa. -
British claim South Africa
British forces seize Cape Colony from the Netherlands after a Brief Battle with the Dutch(the Battle of Muizenberg). -
Territory is returned to the Dutch
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South Africa got claimed back by the British
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Shaka Zulu expands and finds the Zulu empire
Shaka Zulu founds and expands the Zulu empire, creates a formidable fighting force. -
Boers leave Cape Colony in the 'Great Trek' and found the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
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Boers proclaim the Transvaal a republic.
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British grant limited self-government to the Transvaal.
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Natal separates from the Cape Colony.
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Britain annexes the Transval a republic
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Boers rebel against the British, sparking the first Anglo-Boer War. Conflict ends with a negotiated peace. Transvaal is restored as a republic.
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British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
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Treaty of Vereeniging ends the second Anglo-Boer War. The Transvaal and Orange Free State are made self-governing colonies of the British Empire.
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Formation of Union of South Africa by former British colonies of the Cape and Natal, and the Boer republics of Transvaal, and Orange Free State.
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South Africa gains Sovereignty
The Union of South Africa parliament enacts the Status of the Union Act, which declares the country to be "a sovereign independent state". The move followed on from Britain's passing of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which removed the last vestiges of British legal authority over South Africa.
