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SOUTH AFRICA. CONFLICT, CONFUSION AND INCREDIBLE BEAUTY. a shortened timeline. 1652 – First Dutch Settlers (Boers) 1820 – Several thousand British arrive in South Africa 1884 – Europe partitions Africa at Berlin Conference 1899 – Boer War ( Afrkaners vs. British) British defeat Dutch
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SOUTH AFRICA CONFLICT, CONFUSION AND INCREDIBLE BEAUTY
a shortened timeline • 1652 – First Dutch Settlers (Boers) • 1820 – Several thousand British arrive in South Africa • 1884 – Europe partitions Africa at Berlin Conference • 1899 – Boer War (Afrkaners vs. British) British defeat Dutch • 1910-1940 – Apartheid forced upon blacks in South Africa • 1912 – ANC formed • 1919 – Pan African Congress • 1948 – Afrikaner Nationalism and white supremacy
A shortened timeline • 1960 – Sharpeville massacre • 1960’s – Arrest of Nelson Mandela • 1976 – Soweto uprising and massacre • 1985 - Protests and violence cause a declared “state of emergency” • 1989 – De Klerk frees Mandela and abandons apartheid • 1994 – First multi-racial elections; Mandela elected • 1999 – Mbeki chosen 2nd African president of South Africa
Sharpeville Boer Negritude Movement Soweto Boer War Afrkaner Apartheid Berlin Conference boycott Mandela African National Congress strike DeKlerk Pan Africanism Zulu Basic vocabulary(Research and define these terms)
