American Imperialism In South Africa

South Africa is a country with a great quantity of natural resources which includes fertile farmlands and exceptional mineral resources. South African mines are truly wonders in that the great quantity of diamonds and gold that have been removed already and still continue too provide and copious amounts even today. With the climate being mild, supposedly resembling the North American area of San Francisco bay weather, more than anywhere in the world. This climate makes the area superb for agricultural enterprises as well. The European colonial powers that saw the value in exploiting the African resources and lands brought on a rise of racial segregation later named, apartheid, ended up being a complex happening of quite a few events. Some folks
The original owners of the lands were being displaced by way of imperialism in each case. In South Africa, for example destruction of Khoi societies produced an over abundant amount of agriculture farm workers, but their ability to earn a decent wage was severely curtailed by the Dutch’s use of imported slaves, making a ready made labor force for the mines later. South Africa in 1806 was controlled once again by the British, whom gained control from the Dutch several times between 1795 through 1806. English domination of the Dutch descendents, known as Boers or Afrikaners, resulted in the Dutch establishing the new colonies further inland; the new colonies of Orange Free State and Transvaal. The discovery of diamonds in these lands around 1900 resulted in an English invasion which sparked the Boer War later on but, both the Dutch and British settler descendants did agree on continuing to keep the natives under strict
Combining that ready supply of workers from the agricultural field areas, the British industrialization, jointed with some imperialism; drove the natives to working horrible and dangerous working conditions, losing what little freedoms they did have. As someone noticed that there needed to be supportive businesses for these mining exploits, people like C.J. Rhodes became wealthy seemingly over night. By economic and political ambitions, and the individual actions of wealthy power moguls like C.J. Rhodes, resulted in a slow but steady expansion of manufacturing and transport infrastructure, which continued to cement the slaveist working conditions for the natives. The British government fashioned a more uniform policy of racism and apartheid after the Boer War, when the Act of Union of 1910 brought together the previously separate colonies of the Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal, and the Cape to form the Union of South Africa, which later became a white dominion of the British Empire. In response, a group of black South Africans traveled to London to petition Parliament to reject the denial of the vote to Africans in the 1910, but their voices went unheard. The British and the Afrikaners put aside the bitterness of war in order to entrench white power and privilege at the expense of the