slave legacy
Food:
Language:
Afrikaans was spoken in mosques by the slaves
The first Afrikaans was written in Arabic on manuscripts
Afrikaans was created by slaves in attempt to speak with their Dutch speaking owners.
Many of the Afrikaans words were from Eastern countries which a portion of the slaves came from
In the late 18th century Afrikaans was formed as a result of the slave owners having to speak with the slaves
Indian and Indonesian food influenced South African food 
VOC members worked for many years in Batavia so they also brought this cuisine over
Slaves have influenced how we cook today
Indonesian style cuisine was brought with the slaves
Buildings:
They built: The castle of Good Hope, many houses on wine estates and normal houses around the Cape.
The slave lodge was built for the slaves so if there were no slaves there would not be a slave lodge
Slaves built lots of buildings for the Dutch
Religion
In the early 19th century (1832) a third of Cape Town's population was Muslim.
Some of the Muslim traditions we do today comes from slaves.
Islam was known as the religion of resistance because slaves and free blacks met in the homes of Muslim exiles
Islam was brought to the Cape by political exiles and slaves from the East Indies.
Music
The Khoi-Khoi invented a guitar with 3 to 4 strings called a ramkie
The governor of the Cape had his own slave orchestra which played western music
Slaves that were brought in from the east adapted to the Western styled music
Societal challenges
Slaves exceeded the population of the free Burghers
Slavery is the most neglected topic in South Africa
people who are descendants of slaves are reluctant to admit it
Apartheid was a result of slavery