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2007-02-21 11:35:39 · 2 answers · asked by Paigey Pooh<3 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Dutch influence in SA wasn't triggered by the slave trade. Cape Good Hope, the southern tip of SA was initially used as a replenishing station for the Dutch East Indies Company fleet, whose ships sailed back and forth between the Netherlands and its former colony, Indonesia, focusing on the spice trade.
The southern region of SA was gradually colonised by the Boers (lit. transl.: Farmers), a group consisting mainly of descendants of Dutch immigrants. It wasn't until the first half of the 19th century, that the Boers encountered any European competition. Only after the discovery of diamonds and gold, did the British and Germans try to muscle in. Eventually, the British won after the first (1880) and second (around 1900) Boer Wars.
SA's current legal system legal system is still very British in nature, and modern Suid-Afrikaans, one of the two official languages (the other being English) not being a official language of local origin such as Zulu or Xhosa, is still understood -albeit with some difficulty- by speakers of modern Dutch.
2007-02-24 21:03:57 · answer #1 · answered by nuclearfuel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dutch and Spanish slave trade was a large influence.After the Dutch colonized South Africa,they started the great African slave trade,
2007-02-23 20:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by Jarrett D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋