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The Dutch were the first European trading power to set up a permanent settlement in South Africa. In 1652 the powerful Dutch East India Company built a fort and established a supply station under the command of Jan Van Riebeeck on a site that later became Cape Town.
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The first horses arrive in South Africa
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During the 1790s the British moved into the Cape and there was conflict between the British and Dutch.
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After 1902 the British controlled South Africa while the Boers (Dutch now called Afrikaners) built up large farms or took jobs in the city.
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In 1948 the government introduced apartheid (a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race)
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In 1981, there were protests in New Zealand over the Springboks coming to New Zealand due to the then South African government's policy of apartheid
