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  South Africa (republic) timeline
     
c. 600 BC
 
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Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them       
1488
 
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Bartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope       
1652
 
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Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope       
1657
 
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The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work     
c. 1775
 
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Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers     
1795
 
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With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa