How did the colonization of South Africa end?

Answer 1

colonization began when the portouges actually the first ones to come to Africa for slavery but then other coutrys got intrested and followed along that's when the for example the french and the dutch came along and wanted the land for themselves after that all the coutries like the portouges, french, and the dutch went together in a conference and peacfully decided which land they would like to have (the thing that bothers me is that it wasn't even there land to begin with)

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Answer 2

There were three (or four) phases to the colonisation of South Africa.

Initially, colonisation was by an influx of Bantu peoples from the north-east, who took over land previously occupied by the indigenous Khoi and San people. The Bantu moved south until they reached the Kei river. Areas south of the Kei remained in Khoi and San hands. This could be considered more as invasion than colonisation.

Secondly, there was a wave of colonisation by European powers, briefly the Portugese, then the Dutch and the British. The British ended Dutch colonisation by force of arms.

In this period, people of European and mixed descent established many small independent republics in the inland areas. The largest were the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. Although they were not subjects of any foreign power, their occupation of this land is regarded as colonisation, though more correctly it should be regarded as invasion.

The British ruled the Cape Colony and Colony of Natal until gold was discovered, whereafter they expanded into the Boer republics.

British colonisation was completed at the end of the second Anglo-Boer War (aka. Vryheids Oorlog) with the conquest of all Boer resistance. The British united the colonies and Boer Republics into the Union of South Africa.

The Third phase of colonisation began when South Africa was granted self-governing or dominion status from 1910. No longer responsible to a foreign power, there was no colonisation in the traditional sense. However, the government of the Union remained loyal to the values of the British, remained economically tied to Britain and carried out British global policies. Later, after a change of government in 1939, the Afrikaner nationalists started dissolving the ties to Britain, their former coloniser.

Until majority rule, which was achieved with the elections held in 1994, the majority of the people of South Africa had little say in the running of their country. They were the de factocolonial subjects of a internal colonial power that ruled from within the country. This internal colonisation was called "Colonisation of a Special Type" by marxist scholars.

As of the 1994 elections, colonisation of any type ended.