Unlike most of Africa, South Africa was very sparsely populated at the time when the first Europeans arrived. ... As subsequent generations of Europeans expanded further to the east, they also encountered Bantu (mostly Xhosa) who became trading partners as well as armed opponents. The Dutch settlers created very large farms of wheat and wine and thus increasing the need for labour and causing the Cape Colony to start importing slaves from Angola, Madagascar, Mozambique and South East Asia at a time when much of the rest of Africa exported them.  ... The Governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, ...

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The Dutch East Indian Company held just a nominal authority over these colonials, whose population was rapidly increasing. ... Many Boers settled between the Orange river by the south- and the Vaal - by the north. ... That year, gold was discovered in Witwatersrandwhich was in the south of Transvasaal. ... Rhodes was by the time, Cape Colony Prime Minister; this colony wanted the whole south of Africa to belong to the British Empire. ... In 1899, the recently appointed Birtish governor of Cape Colony Alfred Milner, who deeply resented the way the Boers treated the British, passed decrees to tr...

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Britain got colonial possessions that it had occupied during the war, including Malta, Ceylon, and South Africa. Holland lost Ceylon and South Africa but got Belgium. ... In First World War the Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and czarist were eliminated and Japan was confined to Far East. ... Whole of Africa and Asia became nations from colonies and the centre of international politics shifted from old world to new world. ...

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