The following years.

The elections after 27 April of 1994, Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s president. The government of National Unity was established, it’s cabinet made up of twelve ANC representatives.

In 1995 the interim constitution agreed during the negotiations to end apartheid was replaced by one new constitution. The government established the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation.

The Commission operated by allowing victims to tell the stories they had and by allowing perpetrators to confess their guilt.

Apartheid and Mandela

Apartheid was the racial segregation that were the lifestyle of both the White and Black population of South Africa, the National Party governments in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 enforced the Apartheid. It was the White supremacy was the normal thing at that time. Afrikaner minority was maintained.
Apartheid was developed after the Second World War by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations and was also practiced in South West Africa.



In the colonial times it was the first sign of racial segregation. However apartheid was introduced officially in the general election of 1948.
A new legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups. The Natives, The Whites, The Coloured and the Asians. Also areas were segregated, sometimes by forced removals.

Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long trade embargo against South Africa. Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more violent, state organisations responded with increasing repression and state-sponsored violence.

Apartheid began to rise up and more and more began to help apartheid to becoming big.
Also violence began to come when apartheid was becoming big.
An example of apartheid was when the, later president, Nelson Mandela was put in jail.
The speech Mandela had when he became free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s8xkjG8bx4

The Germans in South Africa and WW 1

The South African Union was closely tied to the British Empire and joined automatically with Britain and the allies against the German Empire.
The Second Boer War generals, who fought against the British, became active members of the British Empire.

South Africa had a big influence in several attacks against the Germans.
The Afrikaner-led government of Louis Botha did not hesitate to join The Allies in the First World War and helped the armies in their fight.
The government of South Africa agreed to join the British Army units, so the Africans were free to join the European War, and began to make plans to invade the Germans in South-West Africa.

The second century

Under the Napoleonic Wars, the Cape Colony was annexed by the people from Great Britain and became a British colony in 1815.

The Britain’s encouraged settlers to the Cape, sponsored by the 1820 Settlers to farm in the area between the Xhosa and the colony.

The British established colonies with 25.000 slaves, 20.000 Caucasians, about 15.000 Khosians and nearly 2000 freed slaves.

The power was with the white people all the time, the blacks didn’t have anything to say or think.

The Dutch people also came to South Africa and affected the nation, a thing I will tell more about later.

First hundred years

There isn't much history of South Africa that we know of before 1652 other than the colonization in the 17th century when The Dutch East India Company expedition under Jan Van Riebeck reached the Cape of good hope.

From the time 1652 till 1815 we find out in the South African history that the Portuguese people, although not showing any interest in colonization, used The Cape for navigation and tradement.

In the year 1647, when a Dutch vessel called The Haarlem wrecked in the present-day at Table-Bay, after being rescued the marooned crew recommended that the station should be permanent and established in the bay.

The Dutch East India Company, one of the big trading houses in all of Europe, where sailing the spice route, the place where you got spices for your food, to the Eastern side, they had no intention of begging a colonization in the area, but they wanted to establish a base camp for passing ships and hungry sailors.

In the end a small VOC group lead by Jan Van Riebeck reached a place called the Table Bay in 1652.