South Africa Research

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Berkley Powell
South African Research Project
English II H
* The Dutch Calvinists settled in South Africa in the 1652 in the Table Bay, which is now Cape Town. The French Huguenots arrived in 1688, in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The Dutch East India Trading Company encouraged these groups to immigrate to South Africa because they needed a more reliable way of trading, then the present people there. They also settled in South Africa because they feared they were loosing their culture values in the places they were living. * The beliefs of the early Dutch Reformed settlers in Africa were complete depravity of humanity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace and perseverance of saints. They believed they were ‘ God’s Chosen People’ because god predestines their salvation. Kafir is one who denies God, or an unbeliever. But today people use it as an offensive term to call a black people. * The British colonized in South Africa for many reasons. They wanted to utilize their natural resources, like salt, slaves and use them for trade. This also allowed Britain to expand their world empire and become more powerful. Around 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, the British seized the Cape colony. * South Africa’s government is a constitutional democracy with an independent judicial system, with the aspects of parliamentary and presidential systems. The Parliament of South Africa holds legislative authority. The President of South Africa holds executive Authority. * Identify

* Apartheid was a system of racial segregation and economic discrimination against non-European groups in South Africa * Homelands are people’s native land- Bantustan.
* The Boer wars were two wars fought between the British Empire against the Dutch for the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and Transvaal Republic. * A theocracy is a system of government in which is also ruled in the name of a...
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