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

BASIC VOCABULARY( R E S E A R C H A N D D E F I N E T H E S E T E R M S )

Sharpeville Boer Negritude

Movement

Soweto Boer War Afrkaner

Apartheid Berlin Conference boycott

Mandela African National Congress strike

DeKlerk Pan Africanism Zulu