We began with the Boer War (1899 - 1902) between the Dutch and British for control of South Africa. Great Britain won the Boer War. South Africa became independent from Great Britain in 1910. A white minority of just 20% remained in control of the country. The black majority of South African citizens had no rights. We covered the Boer War between the Dutch and British for control of South Africa. In 1948 the policy of "Apartheid" becomes official law in South Africa. It enforced extreme social, political and economic segregation. in 1912, the African National Congress (ANC) was established. It pursued peaceful and moderate protest against the white minority government for 40 years. In the 1950s, a South African attorney, Nelson Mandela, helped to organize ANC boycotts, strikes and demonstrations - following a course of peaceful civil disobedience. The South African government responded with violence and oppression and Mandela was imprisoned in 1963. South Africa's freedom struggle was deemed illegal by the government. But the struggle didn't stop - it became an underground South African anti-apartheid movement that gained international support in the 70s and 80s. After 27 years, Nelson Mandela is released from prison in 1990 and he becomes South Africa's first black president in 1994.