| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 1st democratically-elected president | Nelson Mandela | 79%
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| Institutionalised policy of racial segregation | Apartheid | 77%
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| Its discovery resulted in the development of Johannesburg | Gold | 75%
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| Political party formed in resistance to institutionalised segregation | African National Congress | 62%
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| Warlike monarch who vastly expanded the Zulu kingdom | Shaka Zulu | 62%
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| South Africa hosted this sporting event in 2010 | FIFA World Cup | 61%
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| People from this country were brought into Natal to work on sugar plantations | India | 54%
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| This colonial power annexed the Cape Colony in 1806 | Britain | 46%
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| Cecil Rhodes's Kimberley mining company | De Beers | 46%
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| Original inhabitants of the Cape region | Khoisan | 41%
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| Tactics used by Boer commandos in the South African War | Guerrilla warfare | 37%
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| Nine Frontier Wars fought between colonists and this nation | Xhosa | 37%
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| What South Africa became in 1910 | Union of South Africa | 24%
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| 69 people were killed in these protests outside a police station | Sharpeville massacre | 23%
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| Established a refreshment station at Cape Town in 1652 | Dutch East India Company | 22%
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| The country achieved full independence on this date | 1961 | 19%
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| Dutch colonists who emigrated into the Interior in the mid-1800s | Voortrekkers | 18%
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| British military suffered heavy losses in this battle of the Anglo-Zulu War | Battle of Isandlwana | 13%
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