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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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  • "Drum": magazine and groups of cultural producers

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  • Films:
    • Tsotsi (2005)

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  • "Madiba": nickname for Mandela
  • Mandela

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  • PAC
  • Pass Laws

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  • Smuts
  • Sharpeville Massacre
  • Sophiatown: Black area of settlement and cultural production that was destroyed for resettlement schemes

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  • Verwoerd

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Timeline South Africa


  • 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
  • 1950: Group Areas Act: forced removal of people from settlement areas into Bantustans
  • April 1960: ANC, PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress) and Communist Party banned; Sharpeville Massacre, State of Emergency
  • 1963 censorship (Publications Control Board)
  • International Sanctions
  • April 1994: first democratic elections
  • 1996-1998: Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings
  • 1997: Thabo Mbeki launches African Renaissance concept
  • 1999: Mbeki elected President afer Mandela retires
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