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| 1879 |
| | Cetshwayo is captured by the British and is exiled to 'Cape Town | |
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| 1881 |
| | The Boers inflict a convincing defeat on a British army at Majuba, in the Transvaal | |
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| 1883 |
| | The British reinstate Cetshwayo as Zulu king, but over a much smaller territory | |
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| 1884 |
| | Cetshwayo dies, after being expelled from his kingdom in an uprising led by Zibhebhu and supported by Boer mercenaries | |
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| 1884 |
| | The Boer republic in the Transvaal regains its independence from Britain | |
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| 1884 |
| | Dinizulu, son of Cetshwayo, employs Boer mercenaries led by Louis Botha to drive his father's enemy, Zibhebhu, from the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1884 |
| | Botha and his Boer followers are rewarded by Dinizulu with a large tract of land, in which they establish their own Boer republic | |
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| 1887 |
| | To put an end to the Boer republic in Zululand, the British annexe the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1889 |
| | Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north | |
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| 1893 |
| | Mahatma Gandhi, travelling with a first-class ticket, is forcibly ejected from the carriage at Pietermaritzburg because of his colour | |
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