PSCI 2102 Lecture Notes - Dutch East India Trading, Jacob Zuma, Absolution
7 Jul 2014
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Class 9 psci2102b march 10, 2014. Way station to all important bits of the world; world"s trade went past south africa. Europeans decide they must have a settlement there because they kept dying on journeys: cape of good hope. Tip of south africa; isolated bit of africa. Bantu speakers migrate downwards to the tip of africa; end up with conflict on line between afrikaners (dutch) and zulu. Founded by dutch colonists as a commercial project, but its purpose is to provide food. Dutch-speaking-afrikaners (boers), mixture of dutch reform church (protestants) and. Huguenots (french protestant refugees fleeing from persecution in france after revoking the edict of nantes: strict protestant religious movement almost, dutch reformed church, focused on everyone living a very puritan lifestyle. Every family can 4500 acres (5 square miles) and end up cattle-farming because of unique geography of this place: trekboers (cattle ranchers in the exterior) Local dialect, afrikaans, mix of french, dutch, and an african language.
