Millennia B.C.
By A.D.
300
1795
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CHRONOLOGY
Hunter-gatherers,
ancestors of the Khoisan (Khoikhoi
and San: "Hottentots" and "Bushmen"), living in South-
ern Africa
Mixed farmers, ancestors of the Bantu-speaking majority
of the modern population, begin to settle south of the
Limpopo River
Portuguese expedition led by Bartholomeu Dias reaches
Mossel Bay
The Dutch East India Company founds a refreshment
station at the Cape of Good Hope
Genesis and expansion of the Afrikaners ("Boers"); the
Khoisan conquered; slaves imported from Indonesia, In-
dia, Ceylon, Madagascar (Malagasy), and Mozambique
Britain takes the Cape Colony from the Dutch
The Dutch (Batavian Republic) regain the Cape Colony
by treaty
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