African Independence and South and South Africa

Whites in South Africa; the descendants of Dutch farmers

• Boer

• Afrikaner

• British

• French

War in South Africa from 1899-1902 between British and Dutch settlers in South Africa

• Boer War

• Napoleonic Wars

• WWI

• Franco-Prussian War

The migration of Boer farmers from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority

• Star Trek

• Great Trek

• Long March

• Great Leap Forward

Policy of racial segregation in South Africa

• decolonization

• integration

• apartheid

• caste system

Group of African nationalists that fought to end apartheid and white rule in South Africa

• Indian National Congress

• African National Congress

• South African National Congress

• Continental Congress

A black South African leader who protested the policy of Apartheid and spent over thirty years in prison before becoming the first black president of South Africa.

• F.W. DeKlerk

• Stephen Biko

• Nelson Mandela

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

White South African president in 1980-1990's who ended apartheid and freed Mandela

• Stephen Biko

• P.W. Botha

• F.W. DeKlerk

• Bill Clinton

This religious man was the leading spokesman of passive resistance to apartheid in the 1980's. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his attempts to replace apartheid with a racially equal South African society.

• Desmond Tutu

• Stephen Biko

• Nelson Mandela

• F.W. deKlerk

Dutch settlers in South Africa

• Boers

• British

• French

• Afrikaners

an official language of the Republic of South Africa that blended Dutch and the Boer language

• English

• Dutch

• Afrikaans

• French