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The Making of Modern South Africa
- Dutch East India Company
- sea route around SA by Vasco De Gama - 1497-98
- wanted somewhere safer + faster than silk road
- colonised to have a place to stop and repair boats + restock food & water
- colonised to have a place to stop and repair boats + restock food & water
- wanted somewhere safer + faster than silk road
- Van Riebeek led colony
- 125 other settlers
- didn't want to upset local tribes
- 125 other settlers
- Slaves intro. to help labour short 1658
- came from Portugal, Madagascar and east coast
- By 1657 colony was successful
- more ppl moved there to make a fresh start
- beginning of Boer Nationalism
- beginning of Boer Nationalism
- more ppl moved there to make a fresh start
- came from Portugal, Madagascar and east coast
- sea route around SA by Vasco De Gama - 1497-98
- The Arrival of the British ( 1795)
- gained control of Cape in 1814 (given to them by the Dutch)
- began to change laws, education, newspapers
- Boers grew tense
- 1833 British banned slavery
- Boers became very angry
- Great Trek 1834-1840
- outside of British control
- 15 thousand
- 15 thousand
- early boer settlements became under threat from Zulu
- Piet Retief (leader)
- went to meeting to make peace and Zulu leader killed him
- battle between boers and zulus
- 3000 zulus died
- becomes part of boers nationalism
- first boer state Natalia in 1839
- first boer state Natalia in 1839
- becomes part of boers nationalism
- 3000 zulus died
- battle between boers and zulus
- went to meeting to make peace and Zulu leader killed him
- Piet Retief (leader)
- outside of British control
- Great Trek 1834-1840
- Boers became very angry
- Boers grew tense
- began to change laws, education, newspapers
- Boers saw arrival as threat to nationalism
- gained control of Cape in 1814 (given to them by the Dutch)
- Boer War October 1899
- british underestimated boers
- Boers attacked British first
- Boers attacked British first
- Boers didn't have a uniform
- hard for british to identify
- ordinary men
- Stage one : Boer offensive
- Boers advantage - they know the land
- british tried to defend
- Stage 2- British offensive
- fresh troops arrived
- Boers started using guerrilla warfare
- Stage 3
- British never experienced this
- british become desperate
- British create concentration camps
- round up boers
- cut off supplies to Boer fighters in 1901
- war ended may 1902
- war ended may 1902
- cut off supplies to Boer fighters in 1901
- burnt farms and food
- overcrowded= diseases food shortage
- 26370 women and children died
- 26370 women and children died
- round up boers
- British create concentration camps
- Stage 3
- fresh troops arrived
- Stage 2- British offensive
- Boers advantage - they know the land
- hard for british to identify
- over land, diamonds, gold
- british underestimated boers
- Vereeniging Treaty
- 1902 British public felt bad
- ashamed
- treaty seen as a sorry
- treaty seen as a sorry
- offered to help boers rebuild, dutch could be taught, self governed
- put boers in concentration camps
- ashamed
- 1902 British public felt bad
- Diamonds and gold
- 1867 diamonds and gold discovered north of orange river
- on Boer land
- on Boer land
- 1867 diamonds and gold discovered north of orange river
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