FINAL EXAM: APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA Flashcards
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SOUTH AFRICA
WHO WERE THEY?
Khoikhoi
Nguni (Zulu)
Xhosa
San
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
WHAT WAS IT?
WHO DID THE TRADING?
WHAT DID THEY TRADE
Refreshment Station Khoikhoi traded with European Ships KhoKhoi to Europeans - Fresh water - Meat - Veggies In exchange : Europeans to KhoiKhoi - Alcohol - Cloth - Iron Goods
Important shipping company: Dutch East Indian Company Established
Permanent base - 1652 Realized the Importance of the COGH They Established a station , and asked Jan Van Reibeeck to establish this base Jan Van Riebeeck - Established the COGH
Dutch West Indian Company
which hemisphere did they take car of ?
What did they have to get investors to invest in their company?
What form of checks and balances did they give to the companies who paid for items
how long could the company be gone for?
- Do the Ships return ?
- Took care of the Western Hemisphere
- Had an intersystem of getting investors in Europe to invest in their company
- They had to give receipts to these companies
- The company leaves for 6 months to a year then you sell them and make profit
- Spices, oils, nutmeg
- Do the Ships return ?
- Sometimes they get caught in storms , and sometimes it took the ships to long to come back
- So the people who had the receipts would trade the receipts of investment to make money
- They encouraged dutch people to settle in South African to make more money by selling to the passing ships
Immigrants
AFRIKANERS
LANGUAGE:
WHAT DID THE DUTCH REFORM CHURCH CONSIDER SOUTH AFRICA?
Afrikaners - Dutch and Germans to farm and sell product to company
Afrikaans
- They left because they were being persecuted
- Considered South Africa the promised land
French Huguenots arrived in 1688
- French Protestants
- France settled in the Netherlands
Biological Warfare
- When they came over they Brough diseases such as small pocks, pneumonia
- People got sick and died
Africans didn’t want to work for the settlers so the settlers encouraged slave labor
SLAVE LABOR
Company and Slave Labor
Brought slaved from East Africa as well as:
- Slaves from Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and East Africa
- A law was eventually made to control the slave population
KhoKhoi
Rules:
- No Firearms,
- no assembly of more than two slaves without presence of a master,
- carry passes with permission from their master to travel
- Masters were having sexual affairs with the slave women but offspring inherits their mother and considered slaves
Basis for later racial discrimination in South Africa
Whites: all free liberties 13% of population
Coloreds: offsprings of whites
Indians: lumped in races like Sri Lanka, asia
Africans: Africans
British Control of Colony
Brits and Dutch fought in Europe
When the British defeated the dutch they took over South Africa
Occupied the cape in 1975
British interests- strategic, investments, migrations
The Great Trek (1834-1841)
The migration of the dutch settlers into the anterior of Africa
Forced Occupation of African Pastures and Farmland
British put the dutch into concentration camps
The closer the British went inland:
They massacred the African people
The British now control Africa :
ORANGE FREE STATE
Transvaal Republic
Cape Colony
Natal- formed by the British
Baden Powell
Fought the africans
And created the Boy Scouts
He inherited this concept from the Zulu and Asante people because he liked the idea of teaching the young the ways of the adult soldiers
He also like the idea of giving medals that’s why the scouts receive badges
Union of South Africa (1910)
British influence and control
2nd World War
Afrikaner victory in 1948 (Nationalist Party led by Dr. Malan)
Separate-ness All these laws to oppress the indigenous people and take their land with no compensation - Mixed Marriages, - Immorality Amendment Act, - Natives Resettlement Act, - Natives Act, Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act, etc.
