History of South Africa
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The first modern humans are believed to have lived in South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. They were collectively known as the Khoisan, the Khoekhoe, and the San. Starting in about 400 AD, Bantu
Looking out over the floodplains of the Luvuvhu River (right) and the Limpopo River (far distance and left)
Statue of Bartolomeu Dias at the High Commission of South Africa in London. He was the first European navigator to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa.
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC). The Dutch East India Company was a major force behind the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (c. 1590s–1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s–1670s).
View of Table Bay with ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), c. 1683.
Union of South Africa
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The Union of South Africa was a British Dominion and, later, a Commonwealth realm in southern Africa from 1910 to 1961. It was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. I
History of South Africa
…for control over the nascent mining industry. Following the defeat of the Boers in the Second Anglo–Boer War or South African War (1899–1902), 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…
Holiday Time in Cape Town (1891–1899) depicted an imagined future united South Africa at a time when the idea was being widely debated in the Cape Colony.
The first Union cabinet, 1910
South West Africa stamp: Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on the 1947 Royal Tour of South Africa
A No. 5 Squadron SAAF Kittyhawk fighter aircraft in Italy