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Secondary Sources

In this category, we include analytic works of all kind e.g works produced by
explorers, missionaries, traders, philantropists, historians, archeologists etc.

C. Emergence of Colonial South Africa as a Political Entity

The geographic space and aborigene people represented in the country we
know as South Africa since 1910, have been a hub and foundation site of a
thriving pan africa wide human civilization enterprise that covered all aspects
of human endevour for at least plus two million years, before the emergence
of the so called ancient civlizations of Asia, Middle East, Europe etc.

An enduring Human Value System underpinned by spirituality,
constitutionalism and fundamental societal institutions constituted the bed
rock of the human civilization the aborigenese founded.

Scholars of latter day civilizations refer to this plus two-million-year golden
era as the stone age and/ or pre-history, created according to them by a pre
human species Australopithecus africanus, a Southern ape that according to

them lived in eastern and Southern Africa.

On the 6th April 1652, the Aborigenese woke up to a new reality. Two of a
contigent of five ships that belonged to the Dutch East India Company, landed
at Table Bay to take-over a trading post that the natives operated in service of
ships that were on their way to and from the East.

In 1657 the Dutch East India Company changed tune from their pronounced

objective of setting up a half way station and embarked on a fully fledged
Colonialist onslaught.

The Bulk of their officials were released and equipped for a Permanent
Settlement

By the time the British took over the Cape from the Dutch in 1795 / 1806 the

area now represented in the Western Cape Provence, had been fully secured
by the Dutch Colonialists.