South Africa History

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South Africa History

• Competition for the Cape Colony

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Conflict in the Cape Colony

• British Officials
• British Missionaries
• Boers
• Zulus

Zulu
Boers
Xhosa
British
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British Officials

• Main goals
• Political control
• Trade

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British Missionaries

• Main goals
• convert heathen Africans into Christians
• limit Dutch Reformed Church

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Boers

• Main goals
• Increase farmland
• Autonomy

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Zulus

• Main goals
• Increase land
• Autonomy

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Slagters Nek

• 1815 Boers rebel against British
• Rebels defeated and several hanged at Slagters
  Nek
• Become symbol of Boer identity and pride

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The Great Trek

• Boers angered by British policies
• new currency
• attend British schools and speak English
• outlaw slavery
• change Cape Colony border
• Over 5,000 Boers leave Cape Colony

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Great Trek Legacy

• Trekkers remembered as heroes
• Courage and physical challenges
• Autonomy
• Military victories Blood River (1826)
• Creation of Orange Free State and Transvaal

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Indians

• 1860 Indians brought by British to work in sugar
  cane fields
• Indians later become local merchants, controlling
  trade in Natal region of SA.