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Imperialism in South Africa

Imperialism in South Africa. By Brady Sprague. Table of Contents. Pro/Con of Imperialism Background Information Effects of Imperialism Western Powers Involved Indigenous Response Results of Independence. Advantages of Imperialism.

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Imperialism in South Africa

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  1. Imperialism in South Africa By Brady Sprague

  2. Table of Contents • Pro/Con of Imperialism • Background Information • Effects of Imperialism • Western Powers Involved • Indigenous Response • Results of Independence

  3. Advantages of Imperialism • Modern developments reach the region: roads, mechanized farming, steam power, railroads, medical clinics etc. • Increase in Economic and Political power for Great Britain, and White settlers • Missions and their schools begin to educated more children of the region

  4. Disadvantages of Imperialism • African states lose sovereignty • Africans subjected to unfair taxation • Africans forced off their lands on to reserves or mine camps, families broken apart • Increase in prostitution and STD spread • Segregation and Oppression develops • War between competing colonial powers (Great Britain and the Netherlands)

  5. Overall • Overall effects of Imperialism positive for the rulers, negative for the ruled • Imperialism will reformat the African social pyramid, placing white settlers on top • Imperialism will create new governments run by white European settlers with armies to keep order, oppressing indigenous populations. • Imperialism will empower western Europe and continue to feed the British Empire

  6. Historical Background • South Africa was the new “El Dorado”, having many natural resources: Good farmland, pastures, diamonds, coal, copper, iron ore and gold. • Inhabited by African Pastoralists for its good farmland for centuries.

  7. Effects of Imperialism • Modern technologies are brought to South Africa • South Africa is today stable because of investment from the British & Dutch • Apartheid in South Africa is a direct result of the racism and oppression stemming from Imperialism

  8. Western Nations Involved • Descendents of the Dutch (or Boers) came throughout the 19th Century • British settlers arrived later in the Century. • Eventually leads to the Boer war, British forces victorious • Competition over natural resources • British government expected settlers to manage their own affairs (Indirect Rule)

  9. Indigenous Response • Some welcomed Europeans as allies, worked in service of European firms, and were rewarded with schools, roads and clinics • Others resisted fiercely, especially Muslims who fought Jihads, all of who were eventually defeated.

  10. Results of Independence • South Africa became a dominion of Great Britain and formed the Union of South Africa on May 31st, 1910, becoming effectively independent • South Africa became truly Independent of British rule after the passage of the Statute of Westminster on the 11th of December, 1931 • South Africa became a republic the 31st of May, 1961

  11. Results of Independence • Social oppression continued to exist under Apartheid, where the Black majority was oppressed by the white minority • South Africa eventually became a functioning republic • South Africa has been economically stable because of its many natural resources

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