| Portuguese seafarers, who pioneered the
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| | warfare ensued during which the colonists
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| sea route to India in the late 15th
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| | gained ascendancy first over the Khoisan
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| century, were regular visitors to the
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| | and then over the Xhosa-speaking
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| South African coast during the early
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| | chiefdoms to the east.It was only in the
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| 1500s. Other Europeans followed from the
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| | late 1800s that the subjugation of these
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| late 16th century.In 1652, the Dutch East
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| | settled African societies became
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| India Company (VOC) set up a station in
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| | feasible. Their relatively sophisticated
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| Table Bay (Cape Town) to provision
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| | social structure and economic systems had
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| passing ships. Trade with the Khoekhoe(n)
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| | long fended off decisive disruption by
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| for slaughter stock soon degenerated into
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| | incoming colonists, who lacked the
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| raiding and warfare. Beginning in 1657,
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| | necessary military superiority.At the
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| European settlers were allotted farms by
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| | same time, a process of cultural change
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| the colonial authorities in the arable
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| | was set in motion, not least by
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| regions around Cape Town, where wine and
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| | commercial and missionary activity. In
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| wheat became the major products. In
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| | contrast to the Khoisan, the black
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| response to the colonists' demand for lab
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| | farmers were by and large immune to
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| our, the VOC imported slaves from East
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| | European diseases. For this and other
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| Africa, Madagascar and its possessions in
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| | reasons they were greatly to outnumber
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| the East Indies.By the early 1700s, the
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| | the whites in the population of
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| colonists had begun to spread into the
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| | white-ruled South Africa and were able to
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| hinterland beyond the nearest mountain
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| | preserve important features of their
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| ranges. These relatively independent and
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| | culture.A spate of state-building was
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| mobile farmers (trekboers), who lived as
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| | launched beyond the frontiers of European
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| pastoralists and hunters, were largely
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| | settlement. Perhaps because of population
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| free from supervision by the Dutch
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| | pressures, combined with the actions of
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| authorities.As they intruded further upon
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| | slave traders in Portuguese territory on
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| the land and water sources, and stepped
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| | the east coast, the old order was upset
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| up their demands for livestock and lab
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| | and the Zulu kingdom emerged as a highly
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| our, more and more of the indigenous
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| | centralized State. In the 1820s, the
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| inhabitants were dispossessed and
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| | innovative leader Shaka established sway
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| incorporated into the colonial economy as
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| | over a considerable area of south-east
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| servants.Diseases such as smallpox, which
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| | Africa, and brought many chiefdoms under
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| was introduced by the Europeans in 1713,
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| | his dominion.As splinter groups conquered
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| decimated the Khoisan, contributing to
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| | and absorbed communities in their path,
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| the decline of their cultures. Unions
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| | the disruption was felt as far north as
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| across the color line took place, and a
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| | central Africa. Substantial states, such
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| new multiracial social order evolved,
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| | as Moshoeshoe's Lesotho and other
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| based on the supremacy of European
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| | Sotho-Tswana chiefdoms, were established,
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| colonists. The slave population steadily
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| | partly for reasons of defense. The
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| increased since more labor was needed.By
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| | mfecane or difaqane, as this period of
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| the mid-1700s there were more slaves in
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| | disruption and State formation became
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| the Cape than there were 'free burghers'
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| | known, remains the subject of much
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| (European colonists). The Asian slaves
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| | speculative debate.But the temporary
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| were concentrated in the towns, where
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| | disruption of life on the Highveld served
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| they formed an artisan class. They
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| | to facilitate Boer expansion northwards
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| brought with them the Islam religion,
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| | from the 1830s, and provided a myth of
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| which gained adherents and significantly
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| | the 'empty land' which whites employed to
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| shaped the working-class culture of the
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| | justify their domination over the
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| Western Cape. Slaves of African descent
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| | subcontinent in the 20th century.Gerald
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| were found more often on the farms of
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| | Crawford was born in South Africa,
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| outlying districts.In the late 1700s,
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| | studied electronics, telecommunication,
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| Khoisan bands offered far more determined
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| | eco-travel and african travel concepts.
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| resistance to colonial encroachment
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| | He taught responsible tourism in South
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| across the length of the colonial
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| | Africa. If you have any questions or
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| frontier.From the 1770s, colonists also
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| | comments please e-mail me on. E-mail
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| came into contact and conflict with
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| | Address:
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| Bantu-speaking chiefdoms some 700 km east
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| | southafricantravelarticles@12234455.co.
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| of Cape Town. A century of intermittent
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