Page 22 - South Africa /Azania, History of Land Settlement

The British Colonialists continued with the policy of conquest and land
dispossession.

The Colonialist favourite tool ie subjugation, genocide, expulsion,
incarceration, were employed without let or hindrance, as before, to achieve

colonialism central objective of land dispossession, displacement and
subjugation.

Simmering tensions between on one hand Dutch, German and French Settlers
who had forged a common Afrikaner Identity and their British imperial rulers
on the other hand, came to a head with the release of the slaves in 1834.

A significant number of Afrikaner families embarked on a trail of conquest

across the Orange and Vaal Rivers and across the Drakensberg mountains in
the East, to set up own Independent Boer Republics of Natal, Vry Staat and
Transvaal.

Meanwhile the Eastern part of the Cape Colony, south of the Orange and
Umzimkhulu Rivers, also suffered the same fate of British imperial Conquest

and Annexation.

The British also went on to acquire by conquest the Boer Republics of Natal in
the early 1840s and the Transvaal and Vry Staat Boer Republics at the end of
the Anglo Boer War in 1902.

The Treaty of Vereening concluded between Imperial Britain and Afrikanerdom
in 1902

and subsequent negotiations within the white colonial fraternity paved the
way for the establishment of a Union of White South Africa.

The Union of South Africa became a reality with the enactment by the British
Parliament of the Union of South Africa Act of 1909.

The Act ensured a whites only Parliament for South Africa.

South Africa also became a British Dominion by virtue of the same Act.

In 1961 the whites only Parliament Converted South Africa into a whites only

Republic.

On 27 April 1994 South. Africa became a Constitutional Democracy.