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A ship was captshard by Bartholomew Diaz and went aroud the cape of good
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the powerful Dutch East India Company built a fort and established a supply station under the command of Jan Van Riebeeck on a site that later became Cape Town.
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The other factor that began to alter the original function of the settlement was the arrival, in 1658, of a group of slaves captured from the Portuguese in Angola.
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after 1685, Huguenots fleeing French anti-protestant legislation.
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In 1795 the British sailed into False Bay and annexed the Dutch colony (The Battle of Muizenberg)
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Known as Boers or Afrikaners, and speaking a Dutch dialect known as Afrikaans, the settlers as early as 1795 tried to establish an independent republic.
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The British were concerned that the French, with whom they were fighting in Europe, would take over the strategic port. In a general peace settlement of 1803 the colony was returned to the Dutch
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the Dutch but in 1806 the British reconquered the territory and their sovereignty was finally accepted
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After occupying the Cape Colony in that year, Britain took permanent possession in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, bringing in 5,000 settlers.
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European powers in the peace settlement of 1816.
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These people became known as the 1820 Settlersand formed the nucleus of the subsequent British settler community.
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In 1820 the British parliament agreed to release £50,000 to transport settlers from Britain to occupy this area
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Between 1835 and 1840 around 5000 people left the Cape colony and headed east in a movement that later became known as the Great Trek
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One of the first political organizations in Africa opposed to the apartheid was Lubumba Yama Afrika, which believed that the only way to fight the Whites was through African unity.
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The dutch came and took over Africa.
