Before Apartheid By lyniebobear 1652 Dutch colonies settled in the Cape of the Good Hope region 1700 The Zulu were a small group in the east ran by many powerful kings 1795 the British dispatched troops to the Cape, which its merchants trading with India had long relied on for supplies 1816 In the Zulu group , Shaka Zulu came to power as their King 1833 British abolished slavery throughout their empire 1880 There was a war between the Transvaal and the British. The Transvaal were successful 1886 There was the discovery of gold and diamonds. This was a turning point for South 1904 Indians had outnumbered the white South Africans in the region 1911 There was a conversation between Pixley ka Isaka Seme and Mohandas Gandhi to help find ANC 1912 The South African Native Congress protest the treatment of black South Africans 1920 Afrikaner nationalists fought to replace Dutch with Afrikaans as the official language 1938 There was a reenactment of the Great Trek on the 100 anniversary of the Afrikaner victory over the Zulu 1940 Shantytown were built on the outskirts of white cities May 26, 1948 the Herenigde National Party and the Afrikaner Party strengthened South Africa’s discriminatory laws