Colonial Political Re-Engineering and the Genesis of Modern Corruption in African Public Service: The Issue of the Warrant Chiefs of South Eastern Nigeria as a Case in Point Jan 1994 99-116 They built forts along the coastline of Africa and Asia to protect their trade and did not try to control land in the interior. It is clear that Manika and Reijnier's situation was unusual in the context of the Cape, as few slaves were able to build and sustain such longstanding relationships. The Dutch East India Company (known by the Dutch abbreviation VOC) was established in 1602 to conduct Dutch trade with the East Indies. Colonisation removed people from their land and made them landless. However, his expedition did not end well as one of his rivals, the newly appointed governor of Darien (Panama) had him executed. In the African case, however, this heterogeneity In Central and South America, the Spanish settlers eventually intermarried with the Incas and Aztecs as most of the settlers were men. African Colonial States Abstract This chapter sketches a history of European colonial states in Africa, north and south of the Sahara, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The term “slavery” therefore has a much broader use than chattel slavery. In the Eastern Cape, many Khoikhoi people were absorbed into Xhosa society. He was convinced he had found the East Indies. Sunday became a day of rest. Sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, the Italian navigator, Christopher Columbus, sailed west across the Atlantic in an effort to reach Asia in 1492. It also resulted in the Zulu kingdom being incorporated into British colonial holdings, eventually as part of the province of Natal, which later became the modern-day South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. On the other hand, colonialism provided opportunities for people of different races, religions and cultures to meet, live and work together. It remained a colonial society, but the ending of slavery was another significant turning point in the history of South Africa. In 1535, Pizarro set up a new capital at Lima and, as governor, was responsible for bringing many settlers to Peru. He got permission from the emperor of the King of Spain, Charles V to conquer this land and become its governor. Noting discrepancies between the theory and practice of colonial The Story of Nigeria. Strategic reasons These were the most important of these chartered companies: Colonisation is the process of acquiring colonies. With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model (SAHO, s.a.). In the Cape, Van Riebeeck first attempted to get cattle and labour through negotiation, but as soon as these negotiations broke down slavery was implemented. Between 1731 and 1765 more and more slaves were bought from Madagascar. As a result, the lives of some slaves improved after 1807. Francisco Pizarro was the Spanish conqueror of Peru. Pizarro heard tales of a southern land rich in gold. Both companies began by trading in spices, but later shifted to textiles. These “free blacks” had managed to acquire slaves of their own, but these slave owners were a tiny minority of the slave-owning population. It is these missionaries who prepared the ground for later waves of colonial agents such as Cecil John Rhodes in Southern Africa. It soon became apparent that if the free burghers were to be successful as agricultural producers, they would need access to substantial labour. Three distinct patterns of colonisation can be distinguished. South Africa Table of Contents. The powerful Ottoman Empire blocked European access to markets in the East. During this first period of British rule, South-East Africa became the main source of slaves. Two minor rebellions of slaves in 1808 and 1825, in which a number of white settlers were killed, made the continued use of slave labour even less appealing. The growing influence of the concept of human rights at the beginning of the 19th century, and the effects of a changing economic system in Western Europe during the same period both contributed to the questioning of the practice of slavery. What was the impact of runaway slaves on the Cape slave society? In the world context, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes retarding it. It all started on 6 April 1652, when the Dutch seafarer Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Table Bay with his three ships. The United Nations defines contemporary slavery as consisting of: ...a variety of human rights violations. The government appointed slave guardians to ensure that these laws were obeyed. The foreground of this illustration from Bogaarts's Historische Reizen (1711) depicts the Khoikhoi way of life. Slave owners were allowed to use harsh punishment like whipping, withholding food, and making slaves work more hours. Within 50 years of the establishment of the Dutch settlement, the indigenous communities near Table Bay, despite heroic struggles on their part, had been dispossessed of their lands and their independent means of existence had come to an end. Estimates of the number of slaves transported from their African homes to European colonial possession in the Americas range from 9 to 15 million people. While at the end of the colonial period imperial interests still controlled the economies of the region, by the end of the 20th century South Africa had become the dominant economic power. Slaves who tried to run away were put in chains to prevent them from running away again, because many slaves from West and East Africa believed that if they ran away they could find their way back home. There were several different reaso… Therefore, slaves in the Cape were strictly controlled, and according to law, slaves could be severely punished for acts such as running away or failing to obey their owners’ orders. The Spanish were less successful against the people who occupied other areas of Central and South America. Anglo-Zulu War (1879, in Southern Africa) The British defeat of Zulu King Cetshwayo’s forces marked the end of an era of powerful Zulu kings. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (SAHO, s.a.). The story of Reijnier is based on the records of a criminal trial. The members of this colonial ruling class enjoyed particular rewards and challenges. The Indian subcontinent was the main source of slaves during the early part of the 18th century, and approximately 80% of slaves came from India during this period. Colonialism, which refers to the establishment of political and economic control by one state over another, had an enormous impact on Africa.The colonial experience began in the late 1400s, when Europeans arrived and set up trading posts in Africa. This was assisted by the expansion of European colonial empires. The revolt, lasted from the early 1790s until 1804, when Haiti received its independence. On one occasion, on a Saturday in a year around 1737, Mevrou Krugel had gone too far in her maltreatment of Sabina. The Spanish built a line of forts to defend their settlements against continuous Araucanian attacks and raids. They did not displace or kill indigenous societies; instead they made use of their labour. The mountains and valleys of the south-western Cape provided many hiding places for slaves who had deserted their owners. Britain dominated trade in India after the collapse of the Mogul empire. During the phase of colonial settlement, European countries sent settlers to inhabit and control large areas of land. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. From 1710 onwards, the adult slave population outnumbered the adult colonial population by as much as three to one. The end of slavery at the Cape was not due to internal pressure, but from a decision from outside. Gold, in particular, was a highly sought-after commodity. Before the Europeans, there was no written history of South Africa. Slaves were also treated better because slave owners did not want them to run away or die while they were still young. Source: cybercapetown.com. It all started on 6 April 1652, when the Dutch seafarer Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Table Bay with his three ships. The indigenous peoples with whom the Dutch first came into contact, the Khoikhoi, had been settled in the region for at least a thousand years before the Dutch arrived, and were an unwilling labour force. Colonies were important sources of raw materials (such as raw cotton) and markets for manufactured goods (such as textiles). It is estimated that the population of Mexico was reduced by ninety per cent in the first fifty years after the arrival of the Spanish. In the end the Khoikhoi had two options. They were usually paid in food, clothing, housing, brandy and tobacco. Originally, South Africa was discovered by the Portuguese in 1488. Many of the freed slaves were Muslims and maintained their Malay cultural and religious traditions. The children born to Manika were born into slavery, for slave women passed this status onto their children. They operated mostly on the southern and eastern coasts of India and in the Bengal region. They had no guns or horses and were nearly wiped out by a series of smallpox epidemics that swept through the Cape starting in 1713. The australopithecines who roamed the highland savanna plains of Southern Africa date from about three million to one million years ago. We see this clearly in the records of the trial of the slave, Reijnier, a runaway who was caught and tried 22 years later. These settlers often excluded indigenous inhabitants from their society or killed many of them in violent wars or through disease. Unfortunately, many greedy and ruthless people hid behind religion to disguise what they were actually doing - destroying whole cultures and civilisations so that they could have control over the people and their land. They also enabled the colonisers to control trade routes. In 1519 the Spanish conquistador, Herman Cortés, led an expedition into central Mexico in search of land and gold. As the number of transported slaves increased, African societies could not avoid transformation, and 400 years of slave trading took their toll. The city was bombarded with canon fire from the ships of Portuguese captain, Ruy Lourenço Ravasco. This prosperous society built beautiful cities along the coastline from where they conducted trade with Arab merchants. In 1652, the VOC decided to establish a permanent refreshment station at the Cape. This area was part of the Mogul Empire and its emperor attacked Calcutta in 1756. Further south Lourenco Marques was sent to Delagoa Bay to establish trade with the indigenous people living there. This means that they were well positioned in times of war. Missionary activity began in 1560. The conquered land then became known as a colony. When the wagon was full, she stopped loading the wagon and instead piled up the dung for the next load. As recently as May 2002, the Anti-Slavery Society reported that “Millions of children are in slavery. Livermon provides a brief overview of how sexualities have been discussed in the African continent, making the argument that there is no one ‘African sexuality’, and that instead African sexualities emerge as discursive and political formations shaped by Africans themselves as much as by colonial formations. South Africa show cases both sides of the colonialism debate. Trading Stations However, colonies were expensive to run, especially if wars were involved. Queen Victoria of Britain appointed a viceroy to rule India. Foremost of these colonial rewards, as we have seen, was slave labour. Source: wikipedia. Portuguese missionaries receiving the ‘native chief’ at Elmira. Both the Jesuits and Dominicans were active in converting Africans to Catholicism. Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo River in 1483 and Cape Cross in 1486. In informal empires, Europeans had influence over the rulers of the country without taking control of it. Slavery moves towards South Africa’s interior. As soon as the commandos returned to their farms, the Khoikhoi attacked again, setting in motion a continuous cycle of attack and counter-attack. The Khoikhoi people at the Cape traded sheep, cattle, ivory, ostrich feathers and shells for beads, metal objects, tobacco and alcohol. The most important of these cities were Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mombasa, Mozambique Island and Sofala. Until the end of the eighteenth century male slaves outnumbered female slaves by as much as four to one, although this ratio could vary significantly from district to district. At first they resisted by attacking and raiding Dutch farms. Gradually these people became absorbed into the Cape community. Source: British Library. Therefore, as the Dutch settlement expanded, independent Khoikhoi communities were placed under unbearable pressure. The British occupied the Cape again in 1806, and in 1814 the Cape officially became a British colony. Girls as young as six work as maids in the Philippines, children break rocks in Ghana’s quarries, young boys are abducted from their homes in South Asia and forced to be camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates and girls are forced into prostitution in the United Kingdom”. Prior to this time, world superpowers such as Portugal, France, and Britain had already set up colonies in Africa. That was centuries before Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Azania on 6th April 1652. They were divided among themselves and their weapons were no match for the guns of the Spaniards. You learnt about the wealthy and powerful Aztec Empire in the previous section. Imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonisation, use of military force, or other means. 1 The situation is not identical throughout Southern Africa, but there are, as I will show, certain fundamental similarities which validate an over-all analysis in terms of a ‘colonial situation’. The people of Azania whose country colonialists called “South Africa” through the British imperialist Union of South Africa Act 1909; mined gold and copper in Mapungubwe as early as the 9th century. The settlers were sold slaves from Madagascar, Mozambique and Indonesia to work the land. The Portuguese traded guns for slaves captured by the Kongo in wars against rival kingdoms in the interior. The legacy of the Spanish in Central and South America, Early colonialism in Africa, Portuguese trading stations in West Africa, The Congo River. He built a fort and left behind Spanish soldiers to hunt for gold on Hispaniola, while he returned to Spain (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them). These colonists fought among themselves and with the inhabitants of the island. They did take local resources. The French and British took advantage of the weakness of the Mogul empire. They arrived with heavily-armed ships and demanded that the Muslim sultans (or rulers) accept the authority of the king of Portugal by paying a large tribute. British Colonialism. “Homophobic Language and Linguistic Resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.” In Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle, and Change, edited by Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti, and Jane Sunderland. Although they could to some extent live off fish caught from the ocean, mostly they were dependent for their survival on goods obtained from slaves who lived on surrounding farms, and from other runaways who lived as far away as Table Mountain across the Cape Flats. Well-established gold and ivory trade network existed between African kingdoms in the interior and cities on the east coast of Africa. In Bengal, the English East India Company strengthened Fort William in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to defend itself against possible attacks by the French. On farms and households in the Cape, slaves and slave owners lived very near each other and came into daily contact. This in turn sought out two ways on how it was diminished, decolonization of Africa and African nationalism or the connection between these two approaches. Colonialism is the direct and overall domination of one country by another on the basis of state power being in the hands of a foreign power (For example, the direct and overall domination of Nigeria by Britain between 1900-1960). By the early sixteenth century the Portuguese had established a string of bases in Asia, including Hormuz at the tip of the Persian Gulf; Goa on the west coast of India and the Straits of Molucca in the East Indies. In some cases, as people sought protection from the violence and warfare that went with the slave trade, large centralised states came into being. The end of colonialism in Africa has been affected by how the formation and analysis of colonialism in Africa is understood. From 1828 onwards the British introduced a number of administrative changes, known collectively as “the Revolution in Government”. Others, however, such as the Khoikhoi communities of the south-western Cape, disintegrated within a matter of decades. In 1641, the Dutch seized the slave trade in Angola away from the Portuguese and they were able to control it until 1648 when the Portuguese took back control again. As a result of this he was not a popular ruler. Europe, in particular Britain, was able to industrialise because of raw materials obtained from colonies and because colonies provided markets for manufactured goods. Individual Khoikhoi men and women became incorporated into colonial society as low-status servants. In slave societies, the institution of slavery touched all aspects of life, as slavery was central to the social, economic and legal institutions. Slaves had to receive a reasonable amount of food, shelter and clothing. The French also joined trade in India in about 1675. There have been several theories regarding the actual nature of life for the African people of the time, but these tend to vary from one extreme to the other; usually seeing only … Colonialism is the practice at which you take political control over another country. Abstract. They were known as humanitarians because they were concerned about the welfare of their fellow human beings. This article indicates the complexity of the social relations of whites and Africans in Southern Africa and the myths by which they rationalise their behaviour. Programme Director, Comrades, Brothers and Sisters, The effects of colonialism past and present are visible all over Africa. They introduced Islam and influenced the development of the Swahili language. In an attempt to restore his authority, Krugel beat all the slaves on the farm. The changes wrought on African societies by the imposition of European colonial rule occurred in quick succession. Colonialism is the direct and overall domination of one country by another on the basis of state power being in the hands of a foreign power (For example, the direct and overall domination of Nigeria by Britain between 1900-1960). The single largest limitation that the slave owners faced was that they were compelled to acknowledge that their slaves were not merely property, but also human beings with human values, desires and emotions. For more than two decades Reijnier lived in the mountains around the Berg River as a droster, as runaway slaves were called. At first, the Portuguese established trading stations along the west coast of Africa rather than permanent settlements. The exploitation of mineral and other resources provided great wealth for the colonising country. The British and the French kept increasing their own political or territorial power while pretending to support a specific local or regional ruler. With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. For their part, African rulers saw many benefits to be had from maintaining relations with Europeans, and for a considerable period of time they engaged with Europeans voluntarily and on their own terms. They also embraced a vague mandate to “civilize,” “improve,” and “develop” the populations they ruled, setting up g… Contested settlement colonies Thus the Cape became not just a society in which some people were slaves, but a fully-fledged slave society. Employees of the company planted vegetables and obtained meat from the Khoikhoi so that they could supply the ships as they called in at Table Bay. The age of colonialism began about 1500, following the European discoveries of a sea route around Africa's southern coast (1488) and of America (1492). The emperor, Aurangzeb, was a harsh ruler who did not tolerate the Hindu population and often destroyed their temples. Both slave uprisings happened during this period, and in both cases the slaves demanded immediate freedom. This control included various functions of government such as making laws, issuing currency, negotiating treaties, waging war and administering justice. Soon after his death in 1707, the empire began to disintegrate. Anglo-Zulu War (1879, in Southern Africa) The British defeat of Zulu King Cetshwayo’s forces marked the end of an era of powerful Zulu kings. However, the fact remains that the Dutch authorities were never able to wipe out the community, and the Hangklip maroons continued to live on the margins of colonial society. In the early stages of colonisation, colonies were mainly trading stations. The colonial history of South Africa Timeline created by 19_Lilly_95. Because the journey to the East took so long, European shipping nations stopped at the Cape of Good Hope to collect fresh water and food. This shows that the reforms were not fully implemented in the Cape Colony. The Spanish called their new colony in Mexico 'New Spain'. There were clear limits to the level of domination that slave owners could exercise over their slaves. The Portuguese encouraged wars between rival kingdoms to maintain a constant supply of slaves. colonial conquest more complete than anywhere else in South Africa. If they attacked wagons crossing the Hottentots Holland Mountains, they exposed themselves to the possibility of recapture. Possibly this was a result of sexual jealousy, or perhaps Sabina did not perform her duties to the satisfaction of Mevrou Krugel. With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. In October 1837, Dina was working in her master’s cattle kraal, loading cattle dung onto the wagon. Quite simply, the colonial economy could not function without the use of slave labour, and therefore slave-ownership was widespread. Church and state worked together to change the indigenous belief systems of the people they ruled. In exchange for slaves, the Portuguese provided the Ndongo and Lunda kings with guns, cloth and other European luxuries. He also allowed Catholic missionaries to work among his people. The Dutch built a fort on the Cape peninsula to defend the colony against attack from rival colonial powers. In America, settlers started their own government and cut ties with their country of origin. Colonial contact was not simply a matter of Europeans imposing themselves upon African societies. Britain did not control the whole of India at this time. To strengthen their position along the coast the Portuguese erected massive stone fortresses in Kilwa, Sofala, Mozambique Island and Mombasa. These slaves arrived at the Cape on 28 March 1658 on board the Amersfoort and had been captured by the Dutch from a Portuguese slaver en route to Brazil. Increasingly the Khoikhoi lost land and cattle to the Dutch as the settlement grew. PRE-COLONIAL AFRICAN AOlution SOCIETIES Subtopic • Pre-Colonial African !" At the time there was a shortage of gold and rumours were spreading that there were states in the south of Africa which had gold. The spread of Christianity throughout the world was made possible by missionary activities. Almost from the start, slaves began to runaway, because of ill treatment, overwork and the natural desire to live as a free person. In those days, travelling by ship was very uncomfortable and unhygienic for ordinary people, but especially for slaves who had to be kept confined. The rebellion failed because it lacked good leaders and did not have enough support. However, it provides for great further reading. This meant that no more slaves (from any destination) could be sent to work in the Cape. The result of this has been an exchange of ideas, technology and traditions. There are serious moral questions about African colonialism. In other words, the Atlantic slave trade could not have taken place without the cooperation, or complicity, of many Africans. In History. The main reason why Europeans began to search for a sea route to the East was to avoid paying expensive customs duties, or taxes. Dina did not complain that she was being beaten. In terms of Roman-Dutch law, slaves were defined, first and foremost, as property. Colonialism in Africa. As the French and British were fighting over the control of India's trade, the Mogul Empire was experiencing serious problems and regional kingdoms were becoming more powerful. The boers were not allowed to enslave the indigenous people of South Africa, so these Khoikhoi servants remained free citizens, but they were seldom paid wages. You learnt about the wealthy and powerful, The Colonising Camera photographs in the making of Namibian History, Grade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600. The Cape Colony had spawned the subcolonies of Natal, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal by the 1860s. Africa’s post-colonial states have great number of ailments. The following case studies will tell you more about how this mighty empire was destroyed by the Spanish. Source: wikipedia. Wars fought in this region provided a constant supply of slaves. Some slaves in Cape Town were given a basic education. This led to the establishment of settler-colonies in Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, and central African areas like Zimbabwe and Zambia. It was only after long and bloodied battles that they gave up their capitals to the invaders. Both slavery and colonisation provided cheap labour which increased profits and added to the wealth of the colonisers. Slavery was fully supported by the Roman-Dutch legal system that the VOC brought to the Cape. selfstudyhistory.com It remained a Dutch colony until 1795, and during that time, the Dutch, who were known as Afrikaners or Boers (a word meaning ‘farmers’), took land away from the native Africans and forced them to work as labourers, treating them as little better than slaves. They were sometimes allowed to keep cattle, but they lost their independence and with that much of their culture and language. Wheat and grapes for wine were grown in this area for the settlement and for export to the passing ships. When larger European nations like the Dutch, English and French arrived in the area, Portuguese power and control ended, and by 1650 they only had control in ports such as Delagoa Bay, Mozambique Island and Mombasa. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries the Netherlands became the wealthiest European trading nation, until Britain challenged them in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this way, the Portuguese diverted the trade in gold and slaves away from the trans-Saharan routes causing their decline and increased their own status as a powerful trading nation. By 1900, when the force of the quick colonization was over, the majority of the land in Africa was divided up amongst seven different European colonizing nations: Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Portugal. The arrival by ox-cart of British explorer, David Livingstone (1813 – 1873), Oswell and party at Lake Ngami. They managed to keep control by making alliances with warring clans and promising to help them against their enemies. The majority of the population practise traditional African religions or no religion at all. Individual runaways were thus very vulnerable. 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