The chosen method is the basic historical method — the chronological method, and by using dates we will map the progression of Apartheid — from its origins to its final legal manifestations. Jan van Riebeeck lands his ships in Table Bay on 6 April with a small contingent of settlers. The slave trade continues to expand in the VOC settlement for the next years.
The Cape Colony falls under Batavian rule. Slavery and Inboekstelsel systems in the colony continue. It is denied by the DRC Synod who state:. Due date — 1 Dec In the words of historian C. At war with nearly all neighbouring tribes, Zulu, Pondo and Xhosa and the British in addition, the Republic descends into further chaos. There is a fundamental British condition in the formation of this new colonial expansion of Natal, it reads:. A letter to Piet Joubert, who acquired many inboekstelsel slaves on his military campaigns as the ZAR Kommandant-General, summarises the brutality and manner of the inboekstelsel — sent to his wife it reads:.
Slavery is specified by the British as outlawed in the region and not permitted. This decision was to have long-lasting ramifications. Unwittingly the church had provided:. Ultra Conservative — Paul Kruger is a Dopper. In the same year the British begin an indentured labour program of their own and Indians arrive on board the Truro on 16 November Slave Apprenticeships for African females lasted until they were 21 years old and for males it was 25 years old, thereafter the Indentured Slave had the option of been released although this was not observed in remote frontier districts.
The British Natal Indian Indentured labour system was a 5 year work contract primarily on sugar cane farms or coal mining with minimal wage under very strict and unfair labour policies — which allowed for no labour or political representation for the work contract period — the conditions of work varied and in many instances qualified as an exploitative relationship and a miserable existence for the labourer.
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If having served 2 indentured work terms 10 years the passage back to India was free of charge. Led by Sekhukune I of the Pedi, a war in took place which is recorded as a Boer defeat. After losing the battle with the Pedi, the ZAR goes into confederation and protectorate negotiations with the British. The ZAR President — Thomas Burgers and the British Representative — Sir Theophilus Shepstone, agree to the voluntary dissolving of the Republic and to the annexation of the territory by the British — the idea is a long standing British one of a Federation of loose states in Southern Africa under the British flag paramountcy.
