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Moving of the first colonists, fastening to them the earths in constant possession have opened itself the first page in history of the longest and severe conflict proceeding and to this day. Natives have concerned earth capture by white peasants as to intrusion into the possession. Gottentoty as a reciprocal measure have started to steal from drills cattle... It was developed some kind of the guerrilla war, lasting two years, - the first war between white poselentsami and indigenous population of Southern Africa.
Van Ribek has generated Â"retaliatory groupsÂ" for prosecution gottentotov and for the first time has entered practice of the reference of objectionable persons. Its translator gottentot Harri, having the big authority at local tribes, has been banished on the Seal island in the Table bay, become by the first prison of Southern Africa. And today the Seal island is known as a severe torture chamber of the republic of South Africa where pine dissatisfied for a policy aparteida.
Military actions of colonists have ended with a victory, but special pleasure from it poselentsy did not test. Already then they have understood, what hard burden should be born it in a life, living side by side with people who, being even surrounded, preferred to die in fight but not to surrender live to the opponent.
Exactly in 10 years after the arrival van Ribek has transferred command of a colony to the successor Zahariasu Vagenaaru, having left it the long list of recommendations. Its first precept said: Â"We should aspire always to living with natives in the world and to conduct with them trade, but simultaneously persistently to move ahead in depth of the countryÂ".
But such requirements have been incompatible. Also is better the founder of a colony understood it. Intrusion into depth of the country has turned in istrebitelnuju war against its aboriginals, lasting painfully long and costing to indigenous population is very expensive. Colonists during war managed to introduce in essence slaveholding system and simultaneously to expand colony territory.
Operations against local tribes have led to that almost for the whole century the Cape colony has appeared cut off from inflow of new people and new ideas. While in Europe and America there were revolutionary changes, the white population of Southern Africa stayed in economic, social and spiritual stagnation, characteristic for a slaveholding system. The trouble of the Cape colony consisted not so much in the presence rabovladenija, how many in its scales: the quantity of slaves on cape has soon exceeded quantity of free citizens.
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