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Skribentens beskrivelse af Focus on south africaFocus on South Africa and Nelson Mandela History The San people were the first settlers. Then the Khoikhoi and the Bantu-speaking tribes followed. The first European settlers landed in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, where they launched a colony that by the end of the 18th century numbered only about 15000, who were known as Boers or Afrikaners. They were speaking a Dutch dialect known as Afrikaans. After occupying the Cape colony, Britain took permanent possession in 1815, which was at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Nine years later, in 1867, they discovered diamonds |