 EARLY PEOPLE  Khoisan  Bantu  Shona

 First in the area.  Hunters and gatherers

 Migrated from West Africa  Brought new languages  Iron tools

 A Bantu tribe  Built Great Zimbabwe (walled city)  Known for gold mining and farming  May have had 10,000 to 20,000 people

 Beginning in the late 1400s  “Gas Stations”

 # THE DUTCH SETTLE CAPE TOWN  Set up as a “Gas Station” to help to restock supplies ½ way to and from Asia  # s- THE BRITISH SETTLE CAPE TOWN  Take over the area.

A mix of Dutch, French, and German  Speak “Afrikaans”  Afrikaans mixed Dutch with Bantu and Khoisan words

 Afrikaner farmers who moved inland  #3.-THE GREAT TREK  Moved farther inland to avoid the British.

 #4.- THE DUTCH (BOERS) FIND GOLD AND DIAMONDS IN THE TRANSVAAL.  Star of Africa

 # 5.- THE BRITISH GO TO TRANSVAAL  Have to fight  #6.- THE BOER WAR  Easy win for the British  # 7.- BECOME THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

 MEANS “APARTNESS”  DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT PLACES  #8. THE SYSTEM OF APARTHEID BEGINS

 Slums  Passbooks  Curfew  Separation  NO rights  NO mixing  NO education

 Lived in “townships,” slums outside major cities  Soweto, outside Johannesburg  Very low-paying jobs  Do your job and go home.

 Constant beatings and mistreatment.  Black South Africans outnumber white South Africans 85% to 15%

 Nelson Mandela

 Formed a new party  Spoke against Apartheid  Wound up in jail  #9.-NELSON MANDELA PUT IN PRISON  Robben Island  27 years

 F.W. DeKLERK  Frees Mandela

 White people panic  Some leave  Some get violent

 New Constitution  “Work together”  No revenge

 April 27, 1994

 # 10.- NELSON MANDELA BECOMES PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA

 Very industrialized (cars, trucks, heavy machinery  Gold, diamonds  Trust will take time

 British business man who basically ruled and built Southern Africa  From “Cape to Cairo”  Roads  Railroads  Telegraph systems

 Northern Rhodesia Zambia  Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe  Nyasaland Malawi

 Named after “Great Zimbabwe”  1 st Black African leader Robert Mugabe  Recently lost a nasty election to Morgan Tsvangirai

 Languages- English and Chichewa  Words in Chichewa:  “Hodi”  Hello  “Zicomo Kwambire”  Thank you, very much  “Nsima”  Corn porridge

 Thumb piano

 Wire car  4 th grade art project