In 1993, attacks on white civilian targets in public places increased. Elphick, Richard; Giliomee, Hermann (eds. Rubinstein, W. D. (2004). A strong relationship existed between the African National Congress (ANC) and the UDF, based on the shared mission statement of the Freedom Charter. The convention declared that apartheid was both unlawful and criminal because it violated the Charter of the United Nations. The role of the Boer settlers was replaced by subsidised British immigrants of whom 5,000 arrived between 1849 and 1851. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for South African, Browse profiles of historical people with the South African last name, This page needs Javascript enabled in order to work properly. [121] After the March 1960 massacre of 69 peaceful demonstrators at Sharpeville, and the subsequent declaration of a state of emergency, and the banning of anti-apartheid parties including the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), and the Communist Party of South Africa, the focus of national resistance turned to armed struggle and underground activity. It also meant the apartheid government could no longer link apartheid and its purported legitimacy to the protection of Christian values and civilisation in the face of the rooi gevaar, meaning "red danger" or the threat of communism. [154], The segregationist policies of apartheid stemmed from colonial legislation introduced during the period of Dutch rule in the 17th century, which was continued and expanded upon during the British colonial era, and reached its apogee during the Boer-dominated Union of South Africa. The British then seized the Cape in 1795 to prevent it from falling into French hands. The majority of burghers had Dutch ancestry and belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church, but there were also some Germans, who often happened to be Lutherans. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more. Means "gratitude" in Sotho. On the night of 23/24 May 1842 British colonial forces attacked the Voortrekker camp at Congella. The Cape was relinquished back to the Dutch in 1803. 3. Available at, Edgerton, Robert B, Africa's armies: from honor to infamy: a history from 1791 to the present (2002) p.109. Aubrey Newman, Nicholas J Evans, J Graham Smith & Saul W Issroff. The rebellion was suppressed, and at least one officer was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. [153] The AWB leader Eugne Terre'Blanche was murdered by farm workers on 3 April 2010. Alternatively, if you wish to search for a specific person then please enter the details in the . By the time it was finally quelled, hundreds of protesters had been shot dead with many more wounded or arrested by police. An important recent find was that of 1.9 million year old Australopithecus sediba, discovered in 2008. The police and military who controlled the JMCs by the mid-1980s were endowed with influence in decision-making at every level, from the Cabinet down to local government. [70], In 1825, a faction of the Griqua people was induced by Dr John Philip, superintendent of the London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, to relocate to a place called Philippolis, a mission station for the San, several hundred miles southeast of Griqualand. For the veterans among your South African ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions. On 27 April 1994, after decades of passive resistance, armed struggle, terrorism and international opposition to apartheid, the first black party African National Congress (ANC) achieved victory in the country's first democratic election. The cash-strapped post-apartheid government was obliged to repay this debt or else face a credit downgrading by foreign financial institutions. South African surnames. [180] The civil war in Angola resulted in 550,0001,250,000 deaths in total mostly from famine. The first was formed by Hermann Eckstein in 1887, eventually becoming Rand Mines. The South African Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB (meaning Afrikaner Resistance Movement), a militant neo-Nazi, mainly Afrikaner white supremacist movement that arose in the 1970s, and was active until the mid-1990s, openly used a flag that closely resembled the swastika. Get in touch! Hetherington, Penelope. From 2629 April 1994, the South African population voted in the first universal suffrage general elections. [194][195][196], Organised resistance to Afrikaner nationalism was not confined exclusively to activists of the oppressed, dark-skinned population. [116] The conflict ended almost as soon as it began with a decisive Boer victory at Battle of Majuba Hill (27 February 1881). Friction between the Griquas and the settlers over land rights resulted in British troops being sent to the region in 1845. In that year, the SS Truro arrived in Durban harbour with over 300 Indians on board. The prisoners were mainly members of the Pan Africanist Congress and United Democratic Front.[209]. Guelke, Leonard (1976). [59] Annexation also precipitated a war between British colonial forces and the indigenous Xhosa nation in 1850, in the eastern coastal region.[60]. In September 1854, 28 Boers accused of cattle rustling were killed in three separate incidents by an alliance of the Ndebele chiefdoms of Mokopane and Mankopane. It is a Dutch/Flemish variant on the word Lowe, meaning Lion. The trek of the Griquas to escape the influence of the Cape Colony has been described as "one of the great epics of the 19th century. The territory of the South African Republic became known after this war as the Transvaal Colony.[54]. He appealed to the British for help against Ndlambe, who retaliated in 1819 during the Fifth Frontier War by attacking the British colonial town of Grahamstown. [128], In 1924 the Afrikaner-dominated National Party came to power in a coalition government with the Labour Party. Eventually, in the 1830s, large numbers of Boers migrated in what came to be known as the Great Trek. Whereas the San were hunter-gatherers, the Khoikhoi were pastoral herders. [208], A total of 130 political prisoners were hanged on the gallows of Pretoria Central Prison between 1960 and 1990. Following the defeat of the Boers in the AngloBoer or South African War (18991902), the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Colony of Natal, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. Abbas - Origin: An Arabic name found throughout Algeria. As European settlers started establishing permanent farms after trekking across the country in search of prime agricultural land, they encountered resistance from the local Bantu people who had originally migrated southwards from central Africa hundreds of years earlier. 4. "Frontier Settlement in Early Dutch South Africa,". In 2007, less than half the protests were associated with some form of violence, compared with 2014, when almost 80% of protests involved violence on the part of the participants or the authorities. [94] Cape Colony Governor Henry Barkly persuaded all claimants to submit themselves to a decision of an arbitrator and so Robert W Keate, Lieutenant-Governor of Natal was asked to arbitrate. Last names come from indigenous, colonialist, and diasporic roots. Chidubem - This name is Igbo for "God is my guide." Igwe - Many Igbo people in South Africa have this last name. Over 7,000 South Africans were killed, and nearly 12,000 were wounded during the course of the war. At the start of the war, Bank of England officials in London worked with South Africa to block gold shipments to Germany, and force mine owners to sell only to the British Treasury, at prices set by the Treasury. "Disease and Society: VOC Cape Town, Its People, and the Smallpox Epidemics of 1713, 1755, and 1767," Kleio 27, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 09:53. During the administration of President Jacob Zuma corruption in South Africa had also become a growing problem. [117], The cause of the AngloBoer wars has been attributed to a contest over which nation would control and benefit most from the Witwatersrand gold mines. The Cape and the VOC had to import Dutch farmers to establish farms to supply the passing ships as well as to supply the growing VOC settlement. British sovereignty of the area was recognised at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Dutch accepting a payment of 6 million pounds for the colony. Mafanela South African. Crocodile Bakoena Bahurutshe Setswana Botswana, South Africa . [228] The slow pace of transformation also fomented tensions within the tripartite alliance between the ANC, the Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.[229]. Nearly 9,000 were killed in action. Later, English and Dutch seafarers in the late 16th and 17th centuries exchanged metals for cattle and sheep with the Khoikhoi. In 1895, a column of mercenaries in the employ of Cecil John Rhodes' Rhodesian-based Charter Company and led by Captain Leander Starr Jameson had entered the ZAR with the intention of sparking an uprising on the Witwatersrand and installing a British administration there. Meanwhile, the British, who viewed their defeat at Majuba as an aberration, forged ahead with their desire to federate the Southern African colonies and republics. Following the Invasion of the Cape Colony by the British in 1795 and 1806, mass migrations collectively known as the Great Trek occurred during which the Voortrekkers established several Boer settlements on the interior of South Africa. The British elements strongly supported the war, and formed by far the largest military component. 2. British colonisation, Mfecane and Boer Republics (18151910), Area Study South Africa, US Library of Congress. [210] Both sides were forced to the negotiating table, with the result that in June 1991, all apartheid laws were finally rescinded- opening the way for the country's first multiracial democratic elections three years later. [242] The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found that competition over jobs, business opportunities, public services and housing gave rise to tension among refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and host communities, identified as a main cause of the xenophobic violence. Following Lord Carnarvon's successful introduction of federation in Canada, it was thought that similar political effort, coupled with military campaigns, might succeed with the African kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. The July 2021 unrest coincided with the Cape Town taxi conflict[253] and Transnet ransomware attack[254][255] leading to unproven speculation that they might have been connected. FamilyEducation does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Afrikaners were split, with some like Botha and Smuts taking a prominent leadership role in the British war effort. [118] The enormous wealth of the mines was in the hands of European "Randlords" overseeing the mainly British foreign managers, mining foremen, engineers and technical specialists, characterised by the Boers as uitlander, meaning aliens. The death penalty was abolished, land reform and redistribution policies were introduced, and equitable labour laws legislated. With 250,000 paid-up members at the height of its existence, it was the largest white protest movement in the country's history. Lwando Southern African. John Murray. 3,481 st most common surname in the world and it is an alternative spelling of Naidu. Until that point, President Paul Kruger's government had excluded all foreigners from the franchise. The discoveries also led to new conflicts culminating in open warfare between the Boer settlers and the British Empire, fought essentially for control over the nascent South African mining industry. The incident was widely criticised by the public, civil society organisations and religious leaders. [192][193], South Africa in the 1980s also provided logistical and other covert support to Resistncia Nacional Moambicana (RENAMO) rebels, in neighbouring Mozambique fighting the FRELIMO-run government during the Mozambique Civil War, and it launched cross-border raids into Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana, killing or capturing a number of South African exiles. "[201], The national liberation movement was divided in the early 1960s when an "Africanist" faction within the ANC objected to an alliance between the ANC and the Communist Party of South Africa. [24] To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. From 19481994, South African politics was dominated by Afrikaner nationalism. The apartheid-era South African military and political intelligence services, for their part, worked closely with American, British and West German secret services throughout the Cold War. As societies became more complex or were colonised by more complex societies these distinguishing names became fixed and were passed on to the next generation. [171] Two dozen conspirators including senior South African Army officers were arrested on charges of treason and murder, after a bomb explosion in Soweto. [9], Many more species of early hominid have come to light in recent decades. With the formal end of apartheid in 1994, the new democratic government was saddled with an onerous foreign debt amounting to R86,700,000,000 (US$14,000,000,000 at then current exchange rates) accrued by the former apartheid regime. Less than a handful of prosecutions were ever pursued. 3. Smuts also signed the Paris Peace Treaty, resolving the peace in Europe, thus becoming the only signatory of both the treaty ending the First World War, and that which ended the Second.[140]. These are the 10 most common African American surnames according to the 2000 census: Williams: Williams is a patronymic of English origin of someone with a forebear named William. It is likely that around 50% of white men of military age served during the war, more than 146,000 whites. A total of 616 men from the Fifth Battalion of the SANLC drowned on 21 February 1917 when the troopship SS Mendi, on which they were being transported to France, collided with another vessel near the Isle of Wight. 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