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South African History

· First settlers = Khoisan (bushmen) & Bantu

· 1652 – Dutch East India Company establishes Cape Colony, become known as Afrikaners

· 1806 – British take over Cape Colony

· 1830s- Zulu wars

· 1890s – Boer Wars

· 1910 – Union of South Africa

· 1913 – Native Homelands Act

· 1948 – Apartheid

· 1958 - Verwoerd is prime minister

· 1960s – Europeans end African colonialism; ANC

· 1978 – Botha is prime minister

· 1989 – de Klerk is prime minister

· 1994 – Nelson Mandela elected prime minister