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COLONISATION OF THE CAPE (Term 3) - Coggle Diagram
COLONISATION OF THE CAPE (Term 3)
Dutch Settlement (1652 onward)
VOC
Formed 1602
Refreshment station
Jan Van Riebeeck
WHY CAPE?
Fresh water
Food supply
1647 shipwreck proof worked
Settlement growth
Fort → Castle of Good Hope
Enslaved people brought to work
Impact on Indigenous
Khoikhoi
Lost grazing land
Forced labour
Pastoralists • Reed houses
San
Driven from hunting lands
Conflict with settlers
Hunter gatherers, rock art
African Farmers (Xhosa)
Permanent settlements
Crops + livestock
Slavery at the Cape
REASONS
Labour shortage- enslaved people brought
ORIGINS
Africa
Madagascar
India
Sri Lanka
East Indies
LIFE
Farm + home labour
Harsh conditions
Resistance (running away, slow work)
Slave Legacy
ISLAM
Sheik Yusuf (1693)
Many enslaved were Muslim
By 1740 → 1/3 Muslim
Afrikaans language
Mixed Dutch + other languages
Free Burghers & Immigration
Free Burghers (1657)
Ex-VOC workers became farmers
Land along Liesbeeck River
Led to 1st Khoi-Dutch War (1659–1660)
Impact on Khoikhoi
Lost land + livestock
Many forced to work for settlers
French Huguenots (1688)
Fled France → Franschhoek
Skilled farmers + winemakers
Encouraged to:
Speak Dutch
Join Dutch church
Swear allegiance
Expansion of European Frontiers (1700s)
Exploration
Robert Gordon → Xhosa chiefs (1777)
Gordon + Van Plettenberg → Orange River (1778)
Trekboers
Inland farmers
Wagons, tents, grazing
Semi-nomadic lifestyle
Conflict with Khoikhoi
Land Dispossession + Mission Stations
Khoikhoi loss
Land taken
Smallpox 1713 → population collapse
San
Hunter-gatherers
Conflicts → many killed or forced as servants
Genadendal (1738)
Georg Schmidt
Taught farming + Christianity
Forced to leave → 1743
Moravians returned 1792
British renamed Genadendal (1806)
Cultural Preservation
Wilhelm Bleek + Lucy Lloyd
Recorded /Xam stories + language (1869)