WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The two European countries who occupied the land were the Netherlands (1652-1795 and 1803-1806) and Great Britain (1795-1803 and 1806-1961). Although South Africa became a Union with its own white people government in 1910, the country was still regarded as a colony of Britain till 1961.

Detailed explanation-2: -Modern countries that were once in the British Empire include: South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho.

Detailed explanation-3: -When Great Britain went to war with France in 1793, both countries tried to capture the Cape so as to control the important sea route to the East. The British occupied the Cape in 1795, ending the Dutch East India Company’s role in the region.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the end of the 19th century, Britain had amassed an enormous colonial empire in Africa. In an almost unbroken line, it spanned from Alexandria in the north to Cape Town in the south, and was famously epitomised in the image of the Rhodes Colossus.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1901 and 1902, the British torched more than 30, 000 farms in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and placed all the Afrikaner women and children in concentration camps, where, because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, more than 25, 000 perished.

Detailed explanation-6: -The three factors that motivated the British to colonise South Africa is to expand land, to colonial competition against other European Empires, and to take over South Africa for routes to India. These three factors motivated the British to colonise South Africa for its power.