- Boer Wars
- British Empire
- Apartheid
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Mandela Jailed
- Soweto Riots (1976), sparked by a government
edict that all instruction in black schools would be held in
Afrikaans. The brutalities of the Apartheid regime became further
apparent by the iconic picture of Hector Pieterson, a black
schoolchild shot by the police. (1976)
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- Bishop Desmond Tutu met with President Willem de
Klerk, issuing a statement charging a "sinister 3rd force in the
country is fomenting chaos, possibly with a view to creating a
climate for a coup against Mr. de Klerk's government." (Sept 10,
1990)
- Mandela Released from Prison
- African Renaissance
- Mandela Retires, Mbeki President (1999)
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