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Timeline of South Africa

Important South African people, dates and events
The Zulus. Khoi, San, and Xhosa
The Dutch East India Company
The Policy of apartheid and Nelson Mandela
Apartheid laws and international sanctions lifted

3000BC - 1000BC: Evidence of migration of people from Somalia and Ethiopia
The Zulus, who belong to the Nguni-speaking peoples, constitute the majority of the population. Other tribes include the Khoi, San, and Xhosa

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400 AD

 

Migration of the Bantu peoples into South Africa

700

 

South African Trade with the Arabs and Phoenicians in ivory, rhino horn, gold, shells and slaves

1480

 

Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias first European to travel round the southern tip of Africa

1497

 

July 8 - Vasco da Gama set out on expedition to India via Africa stopping at Mombasa, Mozambique, Malindi and Kenya trading centres

1652

 

Jan van Riebeeck, working for the Dutch East India Company, founds the Cape Colony at Table Bay and Dutch settlement of South Africa starts

1816

 

1816 - 1826 Shaka Zulu founds the Zulu empire

1835

 

1835 - 1840: The Boers leave Cape Colony and found the Orange Free State and the Transvaal

1858

 

Boers proclaim the Transvaal a republic

1867

 

Diamonds are discovered at Kimberley

1877

 

The British and the Boers defeat the Zulus in the Zulu War

1880

 

1880-81: The Boer War - The Boers rebel against the British

1880s

 

The South African gold rush

1910

 

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

1913

 

Land Act:  Prevented Blacks from purchasing land

1948

 

Policy of apartheid adopted by the National Party (NP)

1950

 

Group Areas Act: To segregate black and white people
The African National Congress (ANC) led by Nelson Mandela initiates civil disobedience

1961

 

South Africa declared a republic

1964

 

Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment

 

 

1970's- 1980's - Civil unrest, sanctions imposed on South Africa, forced resettlement process and Township revolts

1990

 

Nelson Mandela at last released from prison

1991

 

De Klerk repeals remaining apartheid laws and international sanctions are lifted

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