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Glossary South Africa

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• ANC - African National Congress, founded in 1912, up until 1994 this party supported and promoted the liberation movement. Most famous member: Nelson Mandela, since 1994 it has been the governing party; it is expected that the ANC will win the upcoming elections again

• Apartheid: the recognition and separation of separate groups of people (National Party); separateness

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• Bantustans

• Botha

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• "Madiba": nickname for Mandela

• Mandela

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• PAC

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Timeline South Africa

• Timelines of South African History from SAHO.

• c.1000 B.C.-200 A.D.: Khoisan settle in the region
• 300-1000 A.D.: Bantu-speaking people settle in the area

• 1478: Portuguese Bartholemeu Dias arrives at Mossel Bay
• 1652: Jan van Riebeeck arrives with 90 men in service of the Dutch East India Company and establishes a refreshment station at the Cape of Good Hope for the Eastern trade
• 1652-1795: Dutch (later called Boers or Afrikaners) conquer the Khoisan, slaves are imported from Indonesia, India, Ceylon, Madagascar and Mosambique
• by 1662, a colony had developed and immigration was encouraged from the 1700s onwards; "trekboers" move north and east; Khoisan pushed into service for the colonists; conflicts with Xhosa-speaking people in the east
• Dutch, German and French Huguenot colonists gradually begin to from an Afrikaner identity
• British take over the Cape from the Dutch in 1795, return it sven years later, and regain control in 1806
• Cape frontier wars: British-Xhosa conflicts
• Missionary activity
• "The Great Trek"
• Formation of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal or ZAR - Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek)
• Moshoeshoe's Basotholand (today's Lesotho)

• May 1948: Apartheid government in power

• April 1960: ANC and PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress) banned

• April 1994: first democratic elections