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South Africa

 
Place Names: South Africa
The Republic of South Africa since 1961. The Afrikaans name is Suid-Afrika. The Dutch established a trading post at Table Bay (now Cape Town) at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. The British took the Cape in 1806, establishing a colony, and during the 1830s many Dutch (or Boer 'farmer') settlers trekked northwards to establish their own republics in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The UK then annexed Natal. Confrontation between the British and the Boers led to the Boer War (1899–1902) which resulted in British victory and the annexation of the Boer republics. Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal combined in 1910 to form the Union of South Africa.

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