التواجد الاستعماري الهولندي بجنوب إفريقيا ما بين القرنين 17م و 20م

Abstract EN

This study monitors the beginning of the Dutch presence and colonization of South Africa since the 17th century AD, by relying on the Dutch East India company, the largest modern European trading company competing in Asia, Africa and the New world.

and military centers, and the establishment of supply stations in the region, to turn the matter into colonialism, by establishing its first settlement at the cape of good hope, to practice the plundering of African wealth.

however, it was unable to manage its settlement later, and competition arose between France, Britain and the Netherlands over the region.

in the year 1795 AD, Britain occupied it to prevent France from occupying it.

on March 25, 1802, the peace of Amiens was held between Britain and France, and the region was returned to the descendants of the Dutch Boers.

at the Vienna conference in 1815 AD, the European countries decided to annex it to Britain, so the migration of the British began, and they began to clamp down on the Dutch, who were forced to migrate to the interior.

which led to the Boer War-a confrontation between the British and the descendants of the Dutch, between (1899-1902)-for control of gold and diamond mines, and during these three years of conflict the war claimed the lives of tens of thousands of British soldiers, Boer farmers and members of their families, and the indigenous African population those who were trapped in the crossfire between the two parties, and according to the treaty of Pretoria on May 31, 1902 AD, the Boer Republic lost its independence, and thus the Union of South Africa was established in 1910 AD from the cape, which is the main colony of Britain, then natal, which was annexed to Britain, then the Transvaal and free orange, and became South Africa witnesses two types of white settlers, one the Boers and the other the British.