Statistics for South African History Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1st democratically-elected president	Nelson Mandela	79%
Institutionalised policy of racial segregation	Apartheid	76%
Its discovery resulted in the development of Johannesburg	Gold	75%
Political party formed in resistance to institutionalised segregation	African National Congress	61%
Warlike monarch who vastly expanded the Zulu kingdom	Shaka Zulu	61%
South Africa hosted this sporting event in 2010	FIFA World Cup	59%
People from this country were brought into Natal to work on sugar plantations	India	53%
This colonial power annexed the Cape Colony in 1806	Britain	46%
Cecil Rhodes's Kimberley mining company	De Beers	46%
Original inhabitants of the Cape region	Khoisan	41%
Tactics used by Boer commandos in the South African War	Guerrilla warfare	36%
Nine Frontier Wars fought between colonists and this nation	Xhosa	34%
What South Africa became in 1910	Union of South Africa	24%
Established a refreshment station at Cape Town in 1652	Dutch East India Company	23%
69 people were killed in these protests outside a police station	Sharpeville massacre	21%
The country achieved full independence on this date	1961	19%
Dutch colonists who emigrated into the Interior in the mid-1800s	Voortrekkers	17%
British military suffered heavy losses in this battle of the Anglo-Zulu War	Battle of Isandlwana	14%