Who can explain why and how have the white people occurred to live permanently in South Africa?

Question

Since what time do you live there? Would be glad to hear what can you say about your life in this hot country, do you like the climate, the standard of life, like theaters, universities?

I can assure you that I am have no connection to any organization like right wing, nazi and a member of the kkk.
All people should respect not only their own culture, but the culture of people they co-live with.Then there wouldn't be any problems.

Answer 1

People from europe imigrated to africa. My ancestors are mix of scotish,ireland and german.

Answer 2

The Dutch settled in South Africa in 1652. They set up a trading station in Cape Town and made good money servicing passing ships that used the route past the southern tip of Africa that travelled between the east and and the west. From there they explored the country and decided to colonise it. Many other European countries had people going to Africa after that. South Africa has "white" cultures including French, Portuguese, German, Irish, Scottish and many more. These were the early settlers. In 1820 the English made a major thrust to settle in South Africa. That caused a huge problem because the Dutch had control of the country. This led to bloody wars later on. The effects of those wars are still felt today. Enough of the history. South Africa ranges over four basic climatic regions. From cold and wet to boiling hot and dry. Depends on which part of the country you visisted. Your question on the standard of life cannot be answered on a page like this. It varies from gold plated oppulence to shrivelled people living in shacks not having water or food. Theaters there are fairly progessive due to a civil conscienceness. Depends on what you regard as "theatre" there is some amazing stuff going on. The universities are world standard. Expensive though. Hope this has helped. lol

Answer 3

I'm a white South African and my great, great.......grandfather arrived in the Cape 355 years ago. My family has been here for 355 years now and some people(like Ayiza) still refuse to call me African.

You are right this can be a really hot country depending on the time of year. I live on the North Coast and we have warm weather all year round. (Winter temp: 24 degrees, Summer Temp: 29 degrees). During Summer temperatures can reach about 40 degrees when you take humidity into account. There are places which get very cold though during winter.

Our movie theaters are pretty up to date, but for actual theater you have to visit the larger cities, like Johannerburg, Capetown and Durban.

South Africa has quite a number of good Universities, I'm a correspondence student at UNISA myself.

Answer 4

Jan van Riebeek was the first person to sail al the way to south part of Africa. He was part of the V.O.S. He landed three ships Drommedaris, Reijger, and Goede Hoop at the future Cape Town on 6 April 1652 and fortified the site as a way-station for the VOC trade route between the Netherlands and the East Indies. After that the France and the British also arrived. Since then The Boer had to fight of Zulu's, Hottentots as well as malaria.

The Boer decide to explore up north to get away from the British. That is when " Groot trek" started( mean Big Move). That is actually when our ( south Africa) History started. We discover diamond and gold, fight of thousands of Zulu warriors and British soldiers.

The live style then was very simple. The Boers was very pour. The children's toys was very creative put simple - boys will play with clay oxes and the jaws and tail bone of oxes, that was a waggon and oxes.

I you want to learn more let me know. I can go on for pages and pages. It is very interesting history.

Answer 5

In 1652 the Dutch East India Company opened a trading post at the Cape of Good Hope (now Cape Town). mainly as a stop over and to grow fresh produce for their trading fleet that had to go from Europe to the East. That was the beginning.

We don't really get much snow, but not all of South Africa is hot all year round. We have plenty of universities, theaters, restaurants, dance companies. At the moment we have a big International Film Festival in Durban.

I'll give you a few links and you can see for yourself.

Answer 6

What most people answered are pretty mush it. I want to complement buzzer4 on his/her answer. Thank you for that. Makes you sick all the hatred and racism. People should wake up as you say and realise that we cannot change history, just learn from it and move forward, you are quite right there! We whites who live in SA now did not ask to be here, as much as the other coloured people did not ask to be here. So, wake up guys and make a good life for yourself and those around you and stop the bull with racism. We all have the right to a good life and the good life starts with yourself, not with the past.

Answer 7

I was born here, and home affairs is so slow Im still waiting fo a passport ... I guess they really dont want me to leave :) Im white.

Where I live its only ho in summer, in winter its freezing cold! But we get used to the climate.
My standard of life is great, except for the crime.
Theatres ... well I go to the cinemas/movie houses, we watch the same movies as the rest of the world, sometimes at the same time!
I didnt go to university.

Answer 8

A few decades after the 1662 Dutch, in about the 1680's French Protestants called Huguenots, who where fleeing persecution in France for their religious believes where given exile by he Dutch in the Cape in exchange for their labor. They would be given farmland as long as they only sold to the passing Dutch ships. Most of them settled in an area in the Cape now called Franshoek (literally "French corner") My family came with that group of emigrants. Our surname in French was Menard (pronounced Me nar) and of course the Dutch changed it to the nearest word in their language "Minnaar" which is what it stayed.
My mother's side of the family is more recent and moved to SA from Europe just after WW2.

Answer 9

The family on my mother´s side fled from France to Scotland and then to South Africa where they settled as farmers in the Hex River Valley and Nuy area in 1688. My father´s side of the family came to South Africa in the 1700´s from France.

Answer 10

Sorry Like, you got more than enough answers. So I am just going to but in and say something to our racist friend G77Project. Racism swings both ways- just because you are black it doest make you exempt from being a racist. I bet you are living in some nice 'european' country reaping the benefits moaning about how hard done by you are. if you feel that strongly go live in some poverty stricken, disease ridden african country. We cannot change history, we can just learn from it. But its people like you, spreading your hate and propaganda, that keep the fires of race-hate burning!

Answer 11

I've lived here all my life. My parents moved here from Australia, which is sort of ironic now that everyone seems to be leaving SA for Aussie.