South Africa today
The first South Africans, 4 million B.C.E.-1488 C.E.
European invasion, 1488-1795
The British and the Cape Colony, 1795-1870
African states, Afrikaner republics, and British imperialism, 1770-1870
The British Imperial Age, 1870-1910
White union and Black segregation: preparing for Apartheid, 1910-1948
The Apartheid years, 1948-1973
The final years of white domination, 1973-1994
The Mandela years, 1994-1999.