List of years in South Africa
Wikimedia list article
This is a list of years in South Africa.
Before Dutch and British colonisation
BCE in Southern Africa
Early CE in Southern Africa
13th century
14th century
Dutch and later British colonisation
15th century
16th century
Union of South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Post Apartheid
See also
Timelines of cities in South Africa: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria
Bibliography
Historical dictionary of South Africa, Christopher Saunders, Nicholas Southey' 2nd Edition, Lanham, Md., London: Scarecrow Press
Manual of South African Geography: Forming a Companion to the Map of South Africa to 16° South Latitude.
published in 20th century
pre-1990s
W. H. Hosking (1914). "Chronology of South Africa". South African Year-book. London: George Routledge and Sons. pp. 10–27.
Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, DJ Potgieter, Cape Town: NASOU, 1970
Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa, CFJ Muller, 3rd rev., Pretoria Academica, 1981
Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa 5th Edition ISBN 0-947008-17-9, 1985
Who did what in South Africa, Mona De Beer, Craighall, South Africa, AD Donker, 1988
1990s
Institut für Afrika-Kunde; Rolf Hofmeier, eds. (1990).
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