Apartheid In South Africa

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a minimum, and limited the amount of land the settlers could use and the amount of crops they could grow. The amount grown was to be sold to the Company for a low price. The settlers did not take that well, and resorted to smuggling.
During the Napoleonic wars, the British took over the post as a naval station. Although the Dutch had been unhappy under the rule of the East India Company, the British turned out to be much worse for them. The British had a different language, different church, and a different way of dealing with the natives. Some of the more independent farmers sold their farms, and headed further inland, battling natives on the way. They established two independent countries, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal South African Republic. The two, however, did not stay independant for long.

In the 1870’s, diamonds and gold was discovered in Transvaal, and the prospectors, especially the British, rushed in. The Boers, as they now were known, feared the ...

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