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African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.
Afrikaans. Dutch-derived language of South Africa.
Apartheid. 1948-1994. Racial segregation in South Africa.
Atom Bomb. 1945 US. 1949 USSR. 1952 Britain. 1960 France. 1964 China. 1974 India. 1989 South Africa (dismantled). 1998 Pakistan. ? Israel. 1990s Argentina, Brazil. Soon: Iraq, Iran, North Korea. H-Bomb. Neutron Bomb.
Barnard, Christian. 1922-2001. South African surgeon-first human heart transplant 1967.
Boer War. 1899-1902. British defeat Boer Republic in South Africa. Vereeniging.
Boers. 17-19C Dutch settlers in South Africa. Great Trek.
Botha, Louis. 1862-1919. First Prime Minister 1910- of South Africa.
Bushmen. South African tribe. = San.
Cape Colony. 1806 British colony. South Africa.
Cape of Good Hope. Bantu. 1652 Dutch. 1814 British Cape Colony. 1910 Province, South Africa.
Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.
Gold Rush. 1550 Bohemia. 1849 California. 1851 Australia. 1880s Rhodesia. 1886 South Africa. 1897 Klondike.
Hottentots. South African native tribe.
Kaffir Wars. 1779-1879. Bantu vs British in South Africa. Cape Frontier Wars.
Malan, Daniel. 1874-1959. South African Prime Minister 1948-54. Established Apartheid.
Mandela, Nelson. 1918-. South African anti-Apartheid ANC leader. Jailed 1962-90. President 94-99.
Namibia. Bushman. Nama, Dama. Ovambo, Herero. 1884 German protectorate. 1892 Colony = German South-West Africa. 1915 South Africa...League of Nations mandate. 1948 South Africa despite UN protest. 1990 Independent. SWAPO.
Natal. Bantu. 1497 DaGama discovers. 19C Zulu. 1838 Boer. 1843 British. 1910 South Africa.
National Party. 1914. South African Afrikaaner pro-Apartheid, anti-Commonwealth party. In power 1948-94.
Orange Free State. 1820 Boer colony. 1848 British. 1854 Independent. 1900 British. 1910 Union of South Africa. Boer War.
Paton, Alan. 1903-88. South African writer. Cry the Beloved Country 1948.
Pretorius, Marthinus. 1819-1901. First president of South African Republic 1857-71, president. Orange Free State 1859-64.
Rhodes, Cecil. 1853-1902. English colonialist in South Africa. Endowed Oxford scholarship to preserve Empire.
Smuts, Jan. 1870-1950. Boer general, Prime Minister of South Africa 1919~48.