Timeline

Question 1

When did the Dutch first settle in Cape Town?

Answer 1

1652

Question 2

When was the PASS system introduced?

Answer 2

1760s by Dutch settlers

Question 3

What was the PASS system?

Answer 3

A system to control the movement of black workers. They had to carry a pass with personal information about their employer. Started by the Dutch settlers and continued through apartheid.

Question 4

When was the first serious war between white and black farmers?

Answer 4

1779

Question 5

When did Britain occupy the Cape Colony? When did they rule?

Answer 5

1795 then ruled from 1806

Question 6

What happened in the 1820s?

Answer 6

The expansion of the Zulu empire which caused MFECANE

Question 7

What was MFECANE?

Answer 7

(crushing) the disruption of traditional society in Southern Africa in the 1800s

Question 8

When did the Boers’ Great Trek begin?

Answer 8

1836

Question 9

When and who fought the Battle of Blood River?

Answer 9

1838 The Trekkers and Zulus

Question 10

When and what did the first Indian labourers do?

Answer 10

1860 worked in Natal in sugar plantations.

Question 11

When and where were diamonds found?

Answer 11

1867 in Kimberly

Question 12

When and where did the Zulus defeat Britain?

Answer 12

1879 at Isandhlwana

Question 13

What and where was found in 1886?

Answer 13

Gold in Johannesburg

Question 14

What war was from 1899-1902?

Answer 14

South African War or Boer War