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EARLY PEOPLE Khoisan Bantu Shona
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First in the area. Hunters and gatherers
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Migrated from West Africa Brought new languages Iron tools
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A Bantu tribe Built Great Zimbabwe (walled city) Known for gold mining and farming May have had 10,000 to 20,000 people
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Beginning in the late 1400s “Gas Stations”
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#1. 1652- THE DUTCH SETTLE CAPE TOWN Set up as a “Gas Station” to help to restock supplies ½ way to and from Asia #2. 1800s- THE BRITISH SETTLE CAPE TOWN Take over the area.
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A mix of Dutch, French, and German Speak “Afrikaans” Afrikaans mixed Dutch with Bantu and Khoisan words
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Afrikaner farmers who moved inland #3.-THE GREAT TREK Moved farther inland to avoid the British.
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#4.- THE DUTCH (BOERS) FIND GOLD AND DIAMONDS IN THE TRANSVAAL. Star of Africa
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# 5.- THE BRITISH GO TO TRANSVAAL Have to fight #6.- THE BOER WAR Easy win for the British # 7.- BECOME THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
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MEANS “APARTNESS” DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT PLACES 1948- #8. THE SYSTEM OF APARTHEID BEGINS
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Slums Passbooks Curfew Separation NO rights NO mixing NO education
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Lived in “townships,” slums outside major cities Soweto, outside Johannesburg Very low-paying jobs Do your job and go home.
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Constant beatings and mistreatment. Black South Africans outnumber white South Africans 85% to 15%
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Nelson Mandela
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Formed a new party Spoke against Apartheid Wound up in jail #9.-NELSON MANDELA PUT IN PRISON Robben Island 27 years
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F.W. DeKLERK Frees Mandela
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White people panic Some leave Some get violent
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New Constitution “Work together” No revenge
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April 27, 1994
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# 10.- NELSON MANDELA BECOMES PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
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Very industrialized (cars, trucks, heavy machinery Gold, diamonds Trust will take time
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British business man who basically ruled and built Southern Africa From “Cape to Cairo” Roads Railroads Telegraph systems
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Northern Rhodesia Zambia Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe Nyasaland Malawi
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Named after “Great Zimbabwe” 1 st Black African leader- 1980 Robert Mugabe Recently lost a nasty election to Morgan Tsvangirai
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Languages- English and Chichewa Words in Chichewa: “Hodi” Hello “Zicomo Kwambire” Thank you, very much “Nsima” Corn porridge
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Thumb piano
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Wire car 4 th grade art project
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