Room 4: Colonial dispossession and African resistance.
In 1652 the VOC (Dutch East India Company) set up a refreshment station in Table Bay, which later became a permanent settlement. As early as 1657, officials proposed digging a trench across the Cape Peninsula to limit the movement of Khoe-San people, who fiercely resisted occupation of their hunting and grazing lands. Colonists encroached further inland, and in the 1800s Africans were drawn into long, and at times successful, wars of resistance against the British army. The result of all this upheaval was that by the late 1870s, the independence of the large African chiefdoms had been largely destroyed in the regions later collectively known as South Africa.
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Replica of the inscribed pillar, padraġ, placed by Bartolomeu Dias at Kwaaihoek, Eastern Cape.
Iziko Social History Collection
1990s
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Plaster maquette for the Gandhi Memorial statue, Pietermaritzburg.
Anton Momberg
Iziko, SANG 93/21
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