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...Boers' glorious freedom ended in 1814, when the Dutch ceded the Cape Colony to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British brought in property laws, courts, and worst of all, government. Shocked at the treatment of the natives, London ordered all slaves freed, proclaimed Coloreds, Hottentots, and even Bushmen equal...
Since apartheid had not yet been invented, they intermingled freely with the primitive Hottentots and Bushmen who were the only native inhabitants of the Cape. "The Colored race started nine months after Jan van Riebeeck landed," says Colored Educator Dr. Richard van der Ross...
Plentiful Land. Cape Town soon became famous as "the tavern of the seas." Under a warm sun, crops flourished, cattle fattened and the population of the tiny station multiplied. Dutch settlers began flocking in, to be granted plots of rich farm land by the Dutch East India Company. Land was plentiful, and rather than survey it all, the company often granted a newcomer as much as he could ride around on horse back in a given number of hours...
...Enemy. Rather than suffer the indignities of equality, thousands of Boers packed their belongings into ox wagons and trekked out of the Cape Colony toward the unknown lands beyond the Drakensberg Mountains. They called themselves voortrekkers, and their journey was long and perilous. To cross the mountain passes, they often had to dismantle the wagons and carry them piece by piece. And in escaping from the British, they ran into a new enemy: the Bantu...
...British were not far behind. Excited by the discovery of diamonds and gold, British prospectors flocked into the new Boer states. Then came Cecil Rhodes and British capital. And, in 1877, the British government revived an old claim to sovereignty over all former residents of the Cape Colony, laid formal claim to the Transvaal. The eventual result was the Boer War, which lasted for three bloody years and put all of South Africa under the Union Jack...