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General South African History Timeline: 1700s
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Mar 21, 2011

General South African History Timeline: 1700s

1700 The first "placaat" (ordinance or statute) restricting the importation of Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini ...

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General South African History Timeline: 1600s
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Mar 21, 2011

General South African History Timeline: 1600s

European's settle in South Africa for the first time and begin to further colonize and trade with the Khoikhoi at th...

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General South African History Timeline: 1500s
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Mar 21, 2011

General South African History Timeline: 1500s

The Portuguese begin mapping and exploring the South African coastline and basic trading takes place between the Khoikho...

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General South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
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Mar 21, 2011

General South African History Timeline: Pre-1500

Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hun...

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Fatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
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Mar 21, 2011

Fatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010

1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adul...

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Mar 21, 2011

South African Constitution 1996

The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggl...

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A history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
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Mar 21, 2011

A history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996

The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected conv...

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Mar 21, 2011

Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)

On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to for...

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The Constitution
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Mar 21, 2011

The Constitution

South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, democratic ...

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Human Rights and the South African Constitution
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Mar 21, 2011

Human Rights and the South African Constitution

South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in Sout...

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Mar 21, 2011

Writer’s of The Constitution

President Thabo Mbeki addresses the nation at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town Constitutional Assembly After th...

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Defiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
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Mar 21, 2011

Defiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952

1948 May 26, The National Party (NP) wins election and immediately introduces apartheid (separateness) measures agains...

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Defiance Campaign 1952
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Mar 21, 2011

Defiance Campaign 1952

The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderatio...

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Mar 21, 2011

Key people involved in Defiance Campaign

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1946 African Mineworkers Strike
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Mar 21, 2011

1946 African Mineworkers Strike

"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the fami...

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