HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Avail, Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, Great Trek
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Gradually they take over the cape colony. 1836-1838 great trek: maybe dutch boers/afrikaners move north. Late 19th c - british move north too. Conflict between the british settlers and dutch settlers. The cape colony was run by the british. South african republic and orange free state were run by the dutch. Diamond mining and gold mining were sources of wealth, made british try to take those colonies too. How lives of individual people represent the times of the whole. These two probs never met, but they were contemporaries. Pixley was less famous, but he is becoming increasingly better known. Jan was twice pm of south africa. He was a general during both ww1 & 2. He had a dream that the two great races of south africa should learn to live together in harmony and happiness. He was referring to afrikaners and british settlers. He thought that native africans were a side issue.
