development of human rights over the past 150 years

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    settlers join San and Khoikhoi people.

    Migrants from the north settle, joining the indigenous San and Khoikhoi people.
  • 1480

    first European to travel around the southern tip of Africa.

    Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias is the first European to travel around the southern tip of Africa.
  • 1497

    Vasco da Gama lands on Natal coast.

    • Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama lands on Natal coast.

  • Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company

    Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company, founds the Cape Colony at Table Bay.