Records for the Early History of South Africa

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M ACM I LAN COM PA Y REC ORDS F OR THE EA RLY HISTOR Y O F SOU TH A F RICA THE records available for the early history of the fo ur Provinces which make up the Union Of South Africa are preserved in the capital of each Pre vince ' n Pi et ermari t zbur an d namely, Capetow , Pretoria , g, l \ far mOst im Bloemfontein , By the largest and ‘ a t e w l portant are those Cap to n, as they r e ate to the days Of the establishment of a refreshment station at the Cape by the Dutch E ast India Company in 1 52 a r 6 , and continue until ne rly two centuries afte , at whi ch t i me the other States which new form t he l " ot be Out o Union first came into being. It may n f place to o utline briefly the history of South Africa up i t o the date Ofuni on in 1910 . ' The Cape o f Good Hope had been visited from the fi fteenth century onwards by various ships of the ' r e E Po tugues , nglish, and Dutch nations in order to 16 51 E obt ain refreshments . In the Dutch ast India a n t e Company decided to form a . perm nent statio on h “ s ut a fl e shore of Table Bay, and sent o a sm ll eet und r the command Of Jan van Ri ebeeck to carry o ut this " r in 16 52 object He arrived he e April , , and accor di ng to his instructions built a small fortress to protect his men from the natives and wi ld animals ‘ r “ in Table Valley . He also laid out a la ge garden I T e a anpl grew v egetables and fruit . h one n d only 1 5 1 6 RECORDS F OR THE EARLY HISTORY ' object i n taking possessmn of the land was to have a plac e where the y ari ous fleets , sailing and from ‘ to ' m the Indies cOuld obtain fresh eat, vegetables, t he u v and water, so very necessary to many sc r y stricken crews that ar rived from time to time . n n k In , course of time . the compa y u dertoo to - f o wn supply these wants thro ugh, the energies o its ’ ’ ut a s .be an d servants , b thi s w found to expensive S e h unsatisfactory. By the end of the evente nt f century it had abandoned its arming operations, and these were undertaken by the burgher communi ty. e The latter w re men who, having completed the term s ‘ n of ervice , had bee discharged from their company, and granted land i n freehold to cultivate and carry on o farmi ng . T their number were added from time i s o m s w to t me b atche fim igrants , among t whom ere “ a those of Dutch , German , and French n tionality . I n 16 88 and for some years after several parties of F rench refugees arrl ved and greatly added to t he ur r r and he p suits of viticultu e, ag iculture , t making w b vi . of ine, randy, and negar The gradual prosperity of the céunt ry during the early years of the eighteenth century greatly developed the agricult ural Under a nd C o takings, the olony became a g od. grain, meat, un i and wine producing co try . The pr mary intention of the company to maintain this plac e purely as e d a refreshm nt station was thus gra ually lost . The Dutch East India Company was managed in Holland by a directorate commonl y known as f S “ A t a w in the eventeen _ Bat via, its principal to n n v E i the isla d of Ja a, in the ast Ind es, resided the - who a Governor General , controlled all the subst tions l a s of the company , such the Cape , Ceylon , etc . These substations in turn were direct ed by a OF SOUTH AFRICA l e and m s . Governor , in some s al er place by a Command r E on e wa s i ach in , succession subserv ent to the f i authority of the o ficial immediately above h m. At . mmu S ven first the Cape co nicated. with the e teen t - but lat er hrough the Governor General in Batavia , “ it s t o on , owing to geographical si uation , it c rresponded e direct with th former , keeping , however , in touch w he B . 1795 a t ith atavia In ut he C pe capitulated to s an d n n Briti h forces , remai ed an English colo y until handed over to the Batavian Republic i n 1803 in s of i n term of the Treaty Amiens , signed the previous . i n year In one of its early proclamations , issued 1803 n ew- Of by the comers , the people the Cape were ’ informed that it is the will Of the Batavian people that this settlement be no longer dependent on t he High Regency at Batavia nor upon any commerci al all body whatsoever ; . the constitution has abolished r v o i n particula pri ileges f that nature , and the habitants Of’ the Colony of the Cape wi ll know in “ future no ot her government b ut that which . the ’ Batavian people have appointed over themselves . The Cape remained under this government only three - 1806 years , for in January, , it was once more taken E by British forces . The nglish remained in military b t e Lo occupation until 1814 , when y h Treaty of ndon l it was irr evocably h anded over to . Great Britain . In 1806 t he colony comprised the greater portion Of w i s i hat now the Cape Prov nce , and was divided into ’ — t e S l six magisterial districts namely , h Cape , te len f— bosch, Swellendam , Tulbagh , Graaf Reinet , and r O Uitenhage . The fi st three were the ldest, and at each town or village Of those names there was a l church and a court of aw . In 1836 several of the colon i st s f on -the eastern “ ' ' s RECORDS F OR THE EARLY HISTORY ' ' b i t e o W m i Ojder of h colony, t gether ith their fa il es , began to migrate no rthward to the se parts of South A frica now known as the Free St at e ran d the Transvaal .

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