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  1. Complete the sentence about History of South Africa with the correct year: During this time, Portuguese explorers traveled down the west African Coast, detailing and mapping the coastline and in _____…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of South Africa with the correct year: The Dutch East India Company established a trading post in Cape Town under the command of Jan van Riebeeck in April ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about History of South Africa with the correct year: The country became a fully sovereign nation state within the British Empire in ______ following enactment of the Status of th…
  4. Complete the sentence about San people with the correct year: The "South African San Council" representing San communities in South Africa was established as part of WIMSA in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Dutch Cape Colony with the correct year: In ______, after they launched an invasion of the Cape Colony in present-day Cape Town, the British occupied the Cape.
  6. Complete the sentence about Dutch Cape Colony with the correct year: Batavian control did not last long, however, as the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars on 18 May ______ invalidated the Peace of Amien…
  7. Complete the sentence about Dutch Cape Colony with the correct year: In January ______, the British occupied the colony for a second time after their victory at the Battle of Blaauwberg at present-day…
  8. Complete the sentence about Dutch Cape Colony with the correct year: The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of ______ confirmed the transfer of sovereignty to Britain.
  9. Complete the sentence about Jan van Riebeeck with the correct year: Jan van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg on 21 April ______, the son of a surgeon.
  10. Complete the sentence about Jan van Riebeeck with the correct year: In ______, Van Riebeeck travelled with Jan van Elseracq to the VOC outpost at Dejima in Japan.
  11. Complete the sentence about Jan van Riebeeck with the correct year: Seven years later, in ______, he proposed selling hides of South African wild animals to Japan.
  12. Complete the sentence about Great Trek with the correct year: As a result, by ______ over a quarter of the colony's European population was not ethnically Dutch.
  13. Complete the sentence about Great Trek with the correct year: To protect her own prosperous maritime shipping routes, Great Britain occupied the fledgling colony by force until ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Great Trek with the correct year: The British formally assumed permanent administrative control around ______, as a result of the Treaty of Paris.
  15. Complete the sentence about Great Trek with the correct year: Just over a quarter were of German ancestry and about one-sixth were descended from French Huguenots, although most had ceased speaking Fr…
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The year ______ was the most difficult period for the Voortrekkers from when they left the Cape Colony, till the end of the Great Trek.
  17. Complete the sentence about Zulu Kingdom with the correct year: A civil war in the mid-19th century erupted which culminated in the ______ Battle of Ndondakusuka between the brothers Cetshwayo and Mbu…
  18. Complete the sentence about Zulu Kingdom with the correct year: In ______, a British force invaded Zululand, beginning the Anglo-Zulu War.
  19. Complete the sentence about Zulu Kingdom with the correct year: After Dingiswayo's death at the hands of Zwide, king of the Ndwandwe, around ______, Shaka assumed leadership of the entire Mthethwa all…
  20. Complete the sentence about Zulu Kingdom with the correct year: Shaka was succeeded by Dingane, his half-brother, who conspired with Mhlangana, another half-brother, and Mbopa, an induna, to murder hi…
  21. Complete the sentence about Shaka with the correct year: In ______, he was assassinated by his half-brothers, King Dingane and Prince Mhlangana and Mbopha kaSithayi.
  22. Complete the sentence about Shaka with the correct year: Shaka later had to contend again with Zwide's son, Sikhunyane, in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Cetshwayo with the correct year: Cetshwayo kaMpande was born in ______, the son of future Zulu king Mpande kaSenzangakhona and Queen Ngqumbazi.
  24. Complete the sentence about Cetshwayo with the correct year: Cetshwayo was a prominent Usuthu leader the Zulu Civil War of ______, against his younger brother Mbuyazi.
  25. Complete the sentence about Cetshwayo with the correct year: Prominent trader John Robert Dunn unsuccessfully attempted to mediate the conflict, caught in the eventual Battle of Ndondakusuka on the 2n…
  26. Complete the sentence about Cetshwayo with the correct year: Cetshwayo was crowned King on 1 September ______ in a ceremony attended by Sir Theophilus Shepstone.
  27. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Zulu War with the correct year: The Anglo-Zulu War, or simply the Zulu War, was fought in present-day South Africa from January to early July ______ between forces of…
  28. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Zulu War with the correct year: In ______, Sir Bartle Frere was appointed as British High Commissioner for Southern Africa to effect such plans.
  29. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Zulu War with the correct year: Frere, on his own initiative, sent a provocative ultimatum on 11 December ______ to Zulu King Cetshwayo.
  30. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Zulu War with the correct year: The British Empire made the Zulu Kingdom a protectorate and later annexed it in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Battle of Isandlwana with the correct year: On 9 January ______ they moved to Rorke's Drift, and early on 11 January commenced crossing the Buffalo River into Zululand.
  32. Complete the sentence about Second Boer War with the correct year: Negotiations failed at the botched Bloemfontein Conference in June ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Second Boer War with the correct year: Boer politicians fled or went into hiding; the British annexed the two republics in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Cape Colony with the correct year: The Cape of Good Hope then remained in the British Empire, becoming self-governing in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Cape Colony with the correct year: South Africa became a sovereign state in ______ by the Statute of Westminster.
  36. Complete the sentence about Natal Colony with the correct year: Fierce conflict with the Zulu population led to the evacuation of Durban, and eventually, the Boers accepted British annexation in _____…
  37. Complete the sentence about Natal Colony with the correct year: In ______ Francis Farewell, formerly a lieutenant in the British navy, with other merchants of Cape Town, formed a company to trade with…
  38. Complete the sentence about Natal Colony with the correct year: The next step was taken by the settlers at the port, who in ______ resolved to lay out a town, which they named Durban, after Benjamin D…
  39. Complete the sentence about Transvaal Republic with the correct year: In ______, war again broke out between Britain and the ZAR, which was swiftly occupied by British forces.
  40. Complete the sentence about Transvaal Republic with the correct year: In ______, the constitution permanently established the name of the country as the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek.
  41. Complete the sentence about Transvaal Republic with the correct year: Following the establishment of the Union of South Africa in ______, the Transvaal Colony became Transvaal Province.
  42. Complete the sentence about Orange Free State with the correct year: The Voortrekker Republic of Natalia, founded in ______, administered the northern part of the territory through a landdrost based a…
  43. Complete the sentence about Orange Free State with the correct year: The Orange Free State was annexed as the Orange River Colony in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Orange Free State with the correct year: In ______, the Union of South Africa became the Republic of South Africa.
  45. Complete the sentence about Union of South Africa with the correct year: The Union came to an end with the enactment of the constitution of ______, by which it became a republic and left the Commonwea…
  46. Complete the sentence about Union of South Africa with the correct year: The Republic of South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth on 1 June ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Cecil Rhodes with the correct year: At eighteen, he entered the diamond trade at Kimberley in ______ and with funding from Rothschild & Co, began to systematically buy out…
  48. Complete the sentence about Cecil Rhodes with the correct year: In ______, he founded the diamond company De Beers, which retains its prominence into the 21st century.
  49. Complete the sentence about Cecil Rhodes with the correct year: At twenty-eight, she married Rhodes as his second wife on 22 October ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Paul Kruger with the correct year: In ______ he was elected Commandant-General, a post he held for a decade; he resigned soon after the election of President Thomas Françoi…
  51. Complete the sentence about Paul Kruger with the correct year: Kruger was appointed vice president in March ______, shortly before the South African Republic was annexed by Britain as the Transvaal.
  52. Complete the sentence about Paul Kruger with the correct year: In ______ he headed a third deputation that brokered the London Convention, under which Britain recognised the South African Republic as…
  53. Complete the sentence about Paul Kruger with the correct year: Kruger left for Europe as the war turned against the Boers in ______ and spent the rest of his life in exile, refusing to return home fol…
  54. Complete the sentence about Paul Kruger with the correct year: After he died in Switzerland at the age of 78 in ______, his body was returned to South Africa for a state funeral, and buried in the Her…
  55. Complete the sentence about Jan Smuts with the correct year: Smuts played a leading role in the creation of the Union of South Africa in ______, helping shape its constitution.
  56. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: Louis Botha led "Dinuzulu's Volunteers", a group of Boers that had supported Dinuzulu against Zibhebhu in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: Botha later became a member of the parliament of Transvaal in ______, representing the district of Vryheid.
  58. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: Winston Churchill revealed in his memoirs that General Botha was the Boer soldier who took him prisoner at gunpoint at the Battle of Chie…
  59. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: After the fall of Pretoria in June ______, Louis Botha led a concentrated guerrilla campaign against the British together with Koos de la…
  60. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: Botha was prominent in efforts to achieve a peace with the British, representing the Boers at the peace negotiations in ______, and was s…
  61. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: When South Africa obtained dominion status in ______, Botha became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
  62. Complete the sentence about Louis Botha with the correct year: In ______, together with another Boer war hero, Jan Smuts, he formed the South African Party, or SAP.
  63. Complete the sentence about J. B. M. Hertzog with the correct year: Eventually, convinced of the futility of further bloodshed, he signed the Treaty of Vereeniging in May ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about African National Congress with the correct year: Founded on 8 January ______ in Bloemfontein as the South African Native National Congress, the organisation was formed to a…
  65. Complete the sentence about African National Congress with the correct year: When the National Party government came to power in ______, the ANC's central purpose became to oppose the new government's…
  66. Complete the sentence about African National Congress with the correct year: After the Soweto Uprising of ______, the ANC remained committed to achieving its objectives through armed struggle.
  67. Complete the sentence about Natives Land Act, 1913 with the correct year: In ______, the Glen Grey Act was passed, beginning the segregation of races in South Africa through legislation.
  68. Complete the sentence about Natives Land Act, 1913 with the correct year: The Natives Land Act of ______ was the first major piece of segregation legislation passed by the Union Parliament.
  69. Complete the sentence about National Party with the correct year: The party's system of apartheid was officially labelled a crime against humanity by the United Nations General Assembly on 16 December…
  70. Complete the sentence about National Party with the correct year: W. de Klerk declared in February ______ the decision to permit the release of Mandela from prison and ending South Africa's ban on the…
  71. Complete the sentence about National Party with the correct year: In the ______ elections, it expanded its base to include many non-Whites, including significant support from Coloured and Indian South…
  72. Complete the sentence about National Party with the correct year: In an attempt to distance itself from its past, the party was renamed the New National Party in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Apartheid with the correct year: Ordinance No. 49 of ______ decreed that prospective Black immigrants were to be granted passes for the sole purpose of seeking work.
  74. Complete the sentence about Population Registration Act, 1950 with the correct year: Under the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, ______, it was illegal for a white person to marry a person of anothe…
  75. Complete the sentence about Population Registration Act, 1950 with the correct year: In ______, the idea of classifying race in South Africa was proposed by Mine Minister Patrick Duncan.
  76. Complete the sentence about Population Registration Act, 1950 with the correct year: In November ______, the first inkling of the future legislation which would be known as the Population Registration…
  77. Complete the sentence about Population Registration Act, 1950 with the correct year: On 20 February ______, Eben Dönges, Minister of the Interior, introduced the Population Registration Act to the Sou…
  78. Complete the sentence about Group Areas Act with the correct year: The Group Areas Act may be regarded as an extension of the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Pass laws with the correct year: The first internal passports in South Africa were introduced on 27 June ______ by the Earl Macartney in an attempt to prevent Black people…
  80. Complete the sentence about Pass laws with the correct year: The Cape Colony was merged with the two Afrikaner republics in Southern Africa to form the Union of South Africa in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Pass laws with the correct year: In ______ the South African Republic brought in two pass laws which required Black people to carry a metal badge.
  82. Complete the sentence about Pass laws with the correct year: Pass laws date "back to ______ in the Cape when slaves moving between urban and rural areas were required to carry passes authorizing their…
  83. Complete the sentence about Sharpeville massacre with the correct year: Sharpeville was first built in ______ to replace Topville, a nearby township that suffered overcrowding where illnesses like pne…
  84. Complete the sentence about Soweto uprising with the correct year: The uprising sparked unrest throughout South Africa, with 575 deaths from violence by the end of February ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Soweto uprising with the correct year: The ______ decree was intended to force the reverse of the decline of Afrikaans among black Africans.
  86. Complete the sentence about Steve Biko with the correct year: The government came to see Biko as a subversive threat and placed him under a banning order in ______, severely restricting his activities…
  87. Complete the sentence about Steve Biko with the correct year: Following his arrest in August ______, Biko was beaten to death by state security officers.
  88. Complete the sentence about Black Consciousness Movement with the correct year: By 19 June ______, 123 key members had been banned and assigned to internal exile in remote rural districts.
  89. Complete the sentence about Black Consciousness Movement with the correct year: On 12 September ______, its banned National Leader, Steve Bantu Biko died from injuries that resulted from brutal assaul…
  90. Complete the sentence about Rivonia Trial with the correct year: Nelson Mandela moved onto the farm in October ______ and evaded security police while masquerading as a gardener and cook named David M…
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 11 July ______, the farm was raided by the South African Police.
  92. Complete the sentence about Nelson Mandela with the correct year: In ______, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
  93. Complete the sentence about Oliver Tambo with the correct year: Oliver Tambo was born on 27 October ______ in the village of Nkantolo about 20 kilometres from Bizana; eastern Pondoland in what is now…
  94. Complete the sentence about Oliver Tambo with the correct year: In ______, Tambo became Secretary-general of the ANC after Sisulu was banned by the South African government under the Suppression of Co…
  95. Complete the sentence about Oliver Tambo with the correct year: After the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March ______ Tambo was sent abroad by the ANC to mobilize international opposition to apartheid.
  96. Complete the sentence about Walter Sisulu with the correct year: In ______, together with Mandela and Oliver Tambo, he joined the ANC Youth League, founded by Anton Lembede, of which Sisulu was initia…
  97. Complete the sentence about Walter Sisulu with the correct year: The culmination of this new strategy was the ______ Defiance Campaign of passive resistance.
  98. Complete the sentence about Albert Luthuli with the correct year: In ______ he moved to Groutville, where his parents and grandparents had lived, to attend school under the care of his uncle.
  99. Complete the sentence about Albert Luthuli with the correct year: After the completion of his studies in ______, he accepted a teaching position at Adams College where he was one of the first African…
  100. Complete the sentence about Albert Luthuli with the correct year: Luthuli entered South African politics and the anti-apartheid movement in ______, when he was elected chief of the Umvoti River Reserv…

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