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1500 BCE
Khoisan (First South Africans)
In 1500 BC, two types of Khosian, the San and the Khoisan, arrived in South Africa; there was also a conspiracy that the Cradle of Mankind had the first people to arrive in South Africa. -
Boers
The Boers settled the Cape of Good Hope region in 1652 to provide fresh food and water for ships from Europe. (They are also called the farmers as well) -
Zulu
In the late 1700s, There was a group called the Zulu. They were under the leadership of powerful kings, and they started to conquer a lot of the neighboring groups. -
The Boers (Cont.)
The Boers began to expand west, and by 1795, there was a large conflict between Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and other Europeans. The Great British came to take the islands to take the lands of the Boers. After all the years, the Boers resented British Rule. -
Zulu (Cont.)
In 1816, they came to power by conquering other ethnic groups; they were now the strongest ethnic group. -
Gold, war, and Shifting Identities
The discovery of diamonds in 1869 in the Orange Free State and gold in 1886 in Transvaal made a major turning point in South African History. -
Black South Africans Organize
In 1885, John Tengo Jabavu, an Apotical activist, was an early foe of law that raised property qualification. He raised the property qualification for voting and, in time, also became a champion. He then established a newspaper that he used to promote resistance to the cape legislative assembly. -
War between British (Gold, War, and Shifting Identities)
The British moved to occupy Transvaal in 1899. Through a bloody conflict known by as the Second Boer and by the Afrikaners as the Second War. (1899-1902) -
Indian Immigrants (Cont.)
The Indian population was concentrated in the natal colony, where, by 1904, they had expanded enough to outnumber the white South Africans in the region. -
Black South Africans Organize (Cont
In 1912, the African Native National Congress was founded. They protest the treatment of black South Africans. During this time, whites still legislated racism. So whenever the white people started to judge, south Africans stood up to them. -
Afrikaner Nationlism
Afrikaners railed against a nationalist movement in the early twentieth century. They fought to replace Dutch, recognized as one of the country's official languages, with Afrikans. -
Indian immigrants
People in the British colony of India began to arrive in South Africa in large numbers after the British abolished their empire in 1933. They were welcoming whenever they came into the country. -
Foreshadowing Apartheid
Segregation was reaffirmed in the Representation of Natives Act, the Native Trust and Land Act, and the Native Laws Amendment Act, passed in 1936 and 1937. -
Afrikaner Nationalism (Cont.)
In 1938, A reenactment of the great trek was buried on the foundation of the Voortreker monument. This was for the people who sacrificed their lives in the following wars (Boers war) Following those years, they were developing their own ideas of racial superiority, and many came to admire nation Germany's policies on racial purity, and they then went naturally during WWII. -
Foreshadowing Apartheid (Cont.)
.Between union in 1910 and 1948, a variety of whites-only political parties governed South Africa. As the agreement that created the Union denied black South Africans the right to vote, a major focus of the government was on keeping the large Afrikaner population happy