Pre-Mandela Period: Colonial History of South Africa

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    The Pre-Mandela Period: Colonial History of South Africa

  • Jan Van Riebeek and Dutch Calvinist settlers landed at the Cape

  • Colonial authorities started allotting farms to European settlers

  • The Cape Colony fell to the British Crown

  • Reverted back to Dutch Rule

  • British occupy colony again

  • Diamonds and gold have been discovered, which spurs wealth and immagration. This also intensifies the subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants and creates conflicts between the Dutch and British

  • War breaks out between the two Boer republics and the two British colonies

  • Bloemfontein is occupied by the British

  • Johannesburg and Pretoria are occupied by the British

  • The Peace Treaty of Vereeniging is signed by the Boers and the British. The Boers lost their independence.

  • Nelson Mandela is born