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The Portuguese expolorers pushed their way suth along the Atlantic coast of africa, reaching the Cape of Good Hope.
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He went there to establish the first permanent European settlement at the Cape of Good Hope.
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The British took over the Dutch East India Company, which had become bankrupt, and assimed control of the Cape Colony in South africa.
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They did not adopt the Afrikaans language or the Afrikaner culture. Their arrival added more complexity to the ethnic mix of the region.
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This made the Boers lost their cheap labor supply.
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The British Government returned some land to Xhosa.
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Thousand of Afrikaners migrated north out of what was now the British Cpae Colony. The migration became know as the Great Trek.
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It came to the symbolize the afrikaner movement.
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Six thousand Indians arrived in Natal as indentured servants, marking the beginning of what became a permanent and highly influential Indian communitu in Shouth Africa
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They discovered the first of several huge diamond deposits.
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Excavation of diamond in Kimberley
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Excavation of diamond in Kimberley
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Mohandas Gandhi, later called the liberator of India in 1893 to accept a position in an indian law firm.
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It weaken the economic control of Afrikaners and to favor the English people living there.
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Because the British want to week the Africaaner on ecomomy, the Africaaners began to attack British.
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The British defeated the Afrikaners in 1902, but htese hopes did not materialize.
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The British Colonies and Afrikaner Republics joined together as the Union of South Africa.
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Several hundred conservatove Afrocam ,em fpr,ed the African National Congress to organize Africans and oppose discrimination through petitions and appeals to Great Britain.
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It became the first piece of major legislation creating separate areas for Europeans and Africans.
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The passbooks are the books that blacks had to carry with them at all time.
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The government repealed the limited voting right of some Africans had, and installed three white representatives to speak for all backs.
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They tried to make the african National Congress to adope a more confrontational stance and to use mass action to achieve their goals.
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The victory of the National Party in the South African election of 1948 brought conservative Afrikaners to political power.
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Which said whites and members of other racial groups could not marry
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Which created three official races in South Africa to which all residents would be assigned: White, couloured and African.
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Which began to process of designating every inch of land in SouthAfrica for one ofthe three official race groups.
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Which Defined communism so broadly that any resistance to apartheid policies could be equated with communism.
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The ANC and SAIC saw this as a last chance for the governemnt to change its policies before the, along with the Franchise Action Coundil lauched the Defiance Campaign in 1952
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It was the rarget of the Defiance Campaign.
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Police Arrested 156 people ion c Charges of High treason.
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Which demonstrated the power of the people united together against the sustem.
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There was a series of small clashes between police and protesters on the morningh March 21.
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Thousands of ANC supporters also publicly burned their passbooks.
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The leadership of the ANC had decided to launch sabotage compaigns against the government.
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One Saboteur was killed by his own bomb in the attacks.
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The government let him out of South Africa to attend the ceremony in Norway fearing that not to do so would cause a world outcry.
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Which gave the government power to arrest anyone it believed threatened the security of the country.
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Key leaders of both the ANC and PAC were now in prison or exile, and the organization lost some effectiveness.
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The government responded with an armed force. But the riots spread among students from all over central South Africa.
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He was known as a conservative but his understanding of the need for modifications in the light of the worsening economic system led him to make significant changes.
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de Klerk unconditionally released Nelson Mandela from prison on February 11, 1990
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de klerk revoved the key apartheir laws from the books
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Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa, following the first truly democratic elections in that country.
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