Imperialism project!: Imperialism in South Africa Notes

Cause

Diamonds were discover in1867, and the british came to South Africa to annex the diamond fields.
Large amounts of Gold were discovered by the europeans in Witwatersand in 1886.Effect

Effect

The imperialism of South Africa eestroyed the african Ruling System. Men in power were forcefully kicked out of their positioned or told how they need to govern.
Four mines were developed in the town of kimberly, in South Africa. This town became the largest urban society in the 70's and 80's in South Africa
The company who controlled the mines was a monopoly, Cecil Rhodes De Beers Consolidated Mines.
From 1870 to 1900 the Cape Colonies of South Africa exports rose by £13,000,000.
European residents doubled from 1865 to 1900
Gold mining companies dominated the industries way into the 20th century
Cecil Rhodes ruled over the Ndebele and Shona people throught his British South African Company. He wanted to create his own empire with these people to compensate for not doing as well in the Gold industry as he did in the diamond industry.
The Gold mines employed 100,000 african laborers and the Diamond mines employed about 50,000 african laborers.
The Boer War resulted from the Imperialism in South Africa. In this war the british empire fought against the boers. The boers were people who had migrated away from the british empire in the cape colony. They had created 2 Boer republics(The orange free state and Transvaal.) The tensions between the two resutled in to the first boer war and the second boer war. Things were finally settled in 1902 in the treaty Veerening, and the boer republics were absorbed into the British empire.

Thursday, March 19, 2009