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                                                History
                                                The Western Cape is a paradise of beauty and a landscape shaped by powerful natural forces and politiques.Son eventful lives through its heritage, resonating in people, places and stories that tell the stories of the past.
                                                In the decade of democracy after the birth of the "rainbow nation" to look back along the road makes for a fascinating adventure.
                                                "I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free ... "
                                                - Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994.

                                                A world without people or grazing
                                                A world without people and pasture approximately 280 million years, Pangaea emerged from the ice age. The contours of the coast of southern Africa formed around 140 million years. Eruptions beneath the surface of the earth about 290 million years ago caused buckling of rock that formed the Cape Fold mountains. About 150 million years of sediments were eroded, leaving  Table Mountain alone.
                                                The Homo sapiens of 20,000 years have been widely dispersed in southern Africa: The world without us the world had become of the San. The "revolution ministry" began 2000 years ago when the Khoikhoi acquired sheep and cattle and grazing land had been held.
                                                Under pressure from the San raiders stocks Khoikhoi migrated in the south. When the first Europeans arrived in Cape Town to the 16th and 17th centuries, the Khoikhoi were the dominant society.
                                                According to the chronology, the folds of the Cape forms mountain 290 million years ago .Table mountains formed 150 million years ago , the super-continent Pangaea breaks up into separate continents 140 million years ago ;Australopithecus, the monkey living in the south 5 million years ago ,100.000 years ago anatomically modern humans lived in caves in the southern Cape. 14 000 years ago  San hunter-gatherers widely dispersed in southern Africa. 2000 years ago Khoikhoi pastoralists living alongside San, move south to the coast of Cape Town.

                                                Barriers to freedom and wave resistance
                                                In 1910, the Union of South Africa, incorporating the old Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange and the two former British colonies of Cape and Natal, were formed.
                                                In 1948, apartheid became official government policy, the continuation of colonial model of segregation, racial domination and privilege of the white minority. The Group Areas Act of 1950 allowed the forced removal of "colored people" of their homes, and Africans were despised by the laws passed controlling their movements throughout the country
                                                Apartheid ruled and divided a nation, but the resistance was going on, and no amount of legislation, reform or repression could stop him. The protest ended in tragedy in 1960 when police killed 69 peaceful demonstrators in the massacre in Sharpeville. The killings caused 30 000 protesters to march in Cape Town from Langa.
                                                The government responded by banning the ANC and PAC. Driven into exile, peaceful demonstrations have become the armed resistance.
                                                In 1976, students in Soweto rebelled against the use of Afrikaans in black schools.
                                                The 1980s saw a rash of resistance. The United Democratic Front, launched in 1983, unified struggle. Apartheid had been pushed to the brink of collapse
                                                chronology:
                                                1910 Union of South Africa, incorporating the Cape Colony, the African delegation travels in vain to London to protest against the exclusion and the color bar in South Africa's 1912 National Indigenous Congress (SANNC after ANC) is based
                                                Natives Land Act 1913 "was adopted, the application of the separation of whites and Africans in rural areas
                                                1914-1918 World War I: 12 452 South Africans die
                                                1918 CJ Langenhoven wrote Die Suid-Afrika Stem van
                                                1923 Natives (Urban Areas) Act extends segregation in cities
                                                1925 Afrikaans is adopted as the official language in addition to English
                                                1936 Cape propertied Africans are removed from the common voters 'role'
                                                1939-1945 World War II: 9,000 South Africans die, many Africans seeking work in towns and villages
                                                1948 Apartheid is an official government policy
                                                1960 campaign of anti-Pass: 30 000 Africans march from Langa to Cape Town
                                                1960  the ANC and PAC prohibited: leaders fled into exile established military wings
                                                1964 Nelson Mandela and comrades imprisoned on Robben Island in 1966 declared District Six a white area under the Group Areas Act
                                                1976 Soweto uprising spread to schools in Cape Town
                                                1980 revolt against apartheid in Cape Town and across the country
                                                1983 United Democratic Front (UDF) was launched in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town
                                                1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Prize
                                                1986 Pass the control system and the influx abolished urbanization rate in Africa is increasing
                                                1990 Prisoners of the ANC and other political parties and lifting of the ban released political
                                                1991 The formal multi negatiations begin to provide for a new constitution and democracy
                                                1993 Nelson Mandela, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with FW de Klerk
                                                1994 First democratic elections in South Africa
                                                1994 Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa
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