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Europeans started to arrive an to populate the continent, Europeans colonial powers began establishing trading posts along the coast of Africa
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Dutch´s arrival and colonization
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Other Europeans nations began to explore the interior of the country
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By the 1700s there were more slaves than whites settlers
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In the 1806 Great Britain seized the area from the Dutch and began to impose their rule.
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Between 1834 and 1838 the British abolishes slavery, including those slaves owned by the Boers.
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In 1836, the Boers began gathering their sheep, cattle, and slaves and, loading their ox-drawn wagons with their belongings, they started what is known as The Great Trek. They whanted to go away from British rule. They stablished two independent states: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State
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the Dutch East India Trading Company sent about ninety men to the southern tip of Africa to set up a kind ofrefreshment station for their ships
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Increasingly the original black inhabitants of Africa had their land taken from them. By the late 1800s white Europeans had conquered nearly all of Africa
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British captured Pretoria, the capital of Transvaal
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Union of South Africa declare an independent state within the British Empire. The new constitution gave all the power to whites. Blacks started to be considered as inferior
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Apartheid, was the oddicial policy of South Africa government and allows the racial separation into to main groups (blacks, wivh were considered inferior, and whites, the ones that had rights and privileges
