Development can be endangered only if cannot be engendered in Africa
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Development pertains to the growth of an individual, a society, a nation or the entire world. Development involves thinking about the betterment of life and working towards progress.
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At the end of the 15th Century the Portuguese sailed past the Cape of Good Hope. However it was not until 1652 that the Europeans founded a colony in South Africa. In 1652 the Dutch, led by Jan van Riebeeck founded a base where ships travelling to the Far East could be supplied. From 1658 the Dutch imported slaves into South Africa. Meanwhile, at first the Europeans traded with the native people but they soon fell out. In 1658 they fought their first war, the first of many.
- Africa was a land of abundant mineral resources with small population.
- This impressed the Europeans to set up plantations and mines in Africa and to export crops and minerals to Europe.
- The Europeans brought the Africans into the labour market by charging huge taxes and by altering the inheritance laws.
- Rinderpest - a cattle disease almost killed 90 per cent of the cattle throughout Africa and this enabled the mine owners and colonists to become the sole power of the remaining cattle and land resources.
Thus the Europeans gradually rooted their supremacy and colonised Africa.
Black Discrimined in Africa
The apartheid system was racial discrimination of people in South Africa enforced by the white Europeans.
The white European traders who later settled there treated all non-whites badly. The non-whites were not given any voting rights.
This system was especially cruel for the blacks. They were prohibited from staying in white areas.
Public properties like transport, cinema halls, schools, libraries, etc. were separate for the blacks and whites. This was known as ‘segregation’.
The blacks were not even allowed inside the churches where the whites worshipped.
Also they could not start unions to fight against this conduct.
Human race spread from Africa to other parts of the world through interbreeding. There occurred interbreeding among Neanderthals and modern human beings. The human race spread to other parts of the world away from Africa in order to exploit the natural resources maximally and to increase their number and hence inhabitat the naive places.
Note - Africa used to be known as the Dark Continent. This is because nothing was known about the interior of Africa up until about the mid 1800s. So to the outside world, interior Africa was known as dark and mysterious.