The Republic of South Africa History The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Modern humans have inhabited Southern Africa for more than 100,000 years. In 1652 the Dutch East India Company founded a refreshment station at what would become Cape Town. The discovery of diamonds and later gold triggered the conflict known as the Anglo-Boer War, as the Boers and the British fought for the control of the South African mineral wealth. Although the Boers were defeated, the British gave limited independence to South Africa in 1910 as a British dominion. South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological sites in the world. Flag I flag After the Anglo-Boer War the English people desided to make British Union Flag a national flag of South Africa II flag The second flag was designed in 31 May 1928, because the Dutch founded South Africa and
New Zealand much earlier than this. *The British expansion in South Africa When Dutch mercantile power began to fade, the British moved in to fill the vacuum. They seized the Cape to prevent it from falling into the hands of Napoleonic France. British sovereignty of the area was recognized at the Congress of Vienna. A pattern soon emerged whereby English-speakers became highly urbanised, and dominated politics and trade while the largely uneducated Boers were relegated to their farms. The gap between the British settlers and the Boers further widened with the abolition of slavery. South African Wars between the British and the Boers concluded in the Treaty of Vereeniging. Under its terms, the Boer republics acknowledged British sovereignty, while the British in turn committed themselves to reconstruction of the areas under their control. *The Great Trek and the foundation of the two independent Boer republics The Great
Gold was discovered In 20 C New Zealand was given dominion status, 1947 full independence The British expansion in South Africa In late 15 C Portuguese reached the Cape of Good Hope In 17 C permanent colony, Cape colony, by the Dutch 1814 British annexation was formalized. Slave trade and slavery was abolished by Act of Parliament First Boer republic founded Diamonds and gold found Wars between british and Boers The great Trek and the foundation of the two independent Boer republic In about 19 C many Voortrekkers, dutch origin people who live in South Afrika, the Afrikaners moved out of British Cape Colony Their Great Trek- journey by ox wagon, a sign of discontent with the English authorities who had forbidden slave trade and postulated the equality of whites and blacks. Two boer republics- Transvaal, the Orange Free State The Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
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