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Aug 21, 1488
1488 The Portuguese came to South Africa
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1652 the Dutchmen came to South Africa
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1652
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1852 The British took control of Cape Town
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1886 Gold was discovered in Johannesburg, making the city rich.
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1899 - 1902 Dutch settlers fight the British in the Boer War. Britain eventually gains control of South Africa
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1910 South Africa became an independent nation.
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1948 Apartheid was introduced. Laws legally and physically separated different racial groups
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1952 The African National Congress, a black civil rights group, began a Campaign for Defiance of Unjust Laws as a protest against apartheid. Nelson Mandela was one of its leaders.
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1962 Mandela was arrested for plotting against the government. Though he said active politically, he would spend 27 years in prison.
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1990 President F.W. de Klerk announced the end of apartheid. Mandela was freed from prison after serving 27 years.
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1994 South Africa holds its first elections in which all races could vote. Nelson Mandela was elected as President.
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1999 Mandela steped down as President.
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2010
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2010 World Cup (soccer)