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Lincoln James
White South Africans seem to survive on blame. The Dutch East India company abandoned them, forcing them to become renegade slave traders, as if this was not heartbreaking enough the British tried to beat them twice in a war after they declared a rogue republic around some gold mines.
Of course the Black South African majority who they later threw into a diaspora (3.5 million Blacks/Coloureds/Indians were robbed of their properties and farms since the 1930's and given to whites) and denationalised (blacks were forced to carry passports in their own country) seems never to have liked them enough.
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And of course when Jews escaping Hitler and other Brit ex colonials flooded in they were whining about having to share their fatherland. In 1994 they got a sweetheart deal and not even a war crimes trial but that too was not appreciative enough for these Special People.
Now they are pretending to be Rwandans or Bosnian Muslims. Today they are insisting on stealing limelight and sympathy from the millions of poor they created.
I think they should finally grow up. A 350 year adolescence is more than long enough
They use the victim card every time, and use it to step on others EVERY time.
Bentley Flores
>as if this was not heartbreaking enough
Isaiah Gonzalez
The first black owner of Camps Bay, Zwarte Maria Evert (1663 – 1713), daughter of the man known at the time as ‘Kaffer’ Evert van Guinea and Hoena (Anna) van Guinea.
Benin in West Africa was the birthplace of the parents of Zwarte Maria Evert, taken as slaves to the Cape. There was a legendary female regiment of warriors in that part of the world who were known as the Amazon Warriors of Dahomey. If anyone lived up to that noble, fearless and fearsome reputation, in her own special way it was Maria who stood out at the beginning of the 18th century as a prominent farmer and business woman in a colonial society which was absolutely dominated by European males.
Hoena van Guinea was a contemporary youngster alongside Krotoa and Lysbeth Arabus (and her sister Cornelia).
Born into slavery and growing up during her first 8 years as a slave, Maria was highly challenged by adversity, but she soldiered on to accomplish remarkable feats in her time. She died a very wealthy and respected woman. Zwarte Maria Everts was the first title deed owner of the farm which became Camps Bay. She also owned the farms de Mosselbank at Klipheuwel and Klawervlei at Darling and also had been granted grazing and hunting rights in the veld of Sonquasfonteyn and the Drooge Vallei outside of Groene Kloof.
Hunter Howard
In 1658 there were 402 African slaves from Guinea (Benin or Popo) that were landed at the Cape. Most were children seized from two Portuguese ships by two Dutch vessels. Some were sent on to Batavia and others remained behind and yet others dies soon after arrival because of the state that they were in compounded by the fact that Van Riebeeck fed them daily rations of alcohol and tobacco to pacify them.
Later the African slave trade continued from the west coast of Madagascar and by the 1770s the majority of slaves came from Mozambique island and included Mozambicans, Malawians, Congolese and Zimbabweans as well as slaves captured in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KZN. These who were shipped out of the slaver station of Mozambique Island were locally known as Masbiekers. Further African slaves joined these between 1808 and 1856 known as ‘Liberated Africans’ who were mainly from West Africa and East Africa and had been seized at sea from Slaver Ships by the Royal Navy.
Between the 1840s and 1939 most of the Royal Navy sailors based at the Cape were West African Kroo sailors, Siddee sailors from Zanzibar and Lascar sailors from India. Indentured African labour from the same Southern African areas where slaves were captured.
By the 1904 census there were five times as many Slave and migrants of colour residents of the Cape Colony (the majority of whom were in the Western Cape and Cape Town in particular, than Khoi. In the next census in 1911 the 86 000 Khoi and the almost 400 000 descendants of Afro-Asian slaves and migrants of colour previously labeled Mixed/Other (predominantly African) were forced under one category - "Coloured".
Lucas Morales
Of all the slaves brought to the Cape around 68% were Africans of sub-Saharan ancestry. For much of 250 years the majority of the recorded Cape Town population were slaves outnumbering both Europeans and Khoi. So from many historical records and perspectives, as well as dna testing, as much as 36% of Cape Town’s people of colour have sub-Saharan African roots in addition to Khoi, Indian, Southeast Asian, Chinese and European roots, as well as many other tributaries from as far afield as Australian Aborigines, African-American and Caribbeans, St Helena and Philippines. Each has an amazing history to impart to us. Here I tell just one story - that of Zwarte Maria Evert.
When we relate these stories to descendants of slaves they often do not want to know about their slave heritage as they think of it as shameful and then adopt falsehoods instead.
Connor Diaz
The infrastructure and farming in the Cape colony who never have occurred without slave skills and labour. These ancestors went through one of the worst ‘Crimes against Humanity’ yet rose above adversity. The first craftsmen, first teachers, first chemist, first agriculturalists, first lawmen, first philanthropist, and so much more, were all from among slaves and Free Blacks. The slaves also often fought back and led armed uprisings in both Western and Eastern Cape. In 1808 slaves and Khoi (including two Irish supporters) rose up and 346 rebels took over forty farms in rebellion. Many rebels became prisoners on Robben Island. But let me not digress further and rather return to my story of the amazing Zwarte Maria Evert.
Adrian Clark
Zwarte Maria Everts was born at the Cape of Good Hope in 1663 to Anna van Guinea, also known by her indigenous African name Hoena, and her common law partner was the freed slave Evert van Guinea.
Evert van Guinea and Hoena van Guinea, in May 1658 had arrived in Cape of Good Hope as part of 220 slaves taken in Popo (Benin) by the slaver-ship Hasselt. Together with Koddo van Guinea, Maria van Guinea, Oude Hans van Guinea, Jajenne van Guinea, Adouke van Guinea, Deuxsous van Guinea, Dirk van Guinea and Regina van Rapenberg van Guinea they were purchased by Jan Van Riebeeck.
While with van Riebeeck, Hoena (renamed Anna) also had a son with Dirk van Guinea in 1660. Evert of Guinea was rewarded with his freedom by Jan van Riebeeck after he gave away the hiding place of some fellow slaves who had escaped.
Anna was later sold to Hendrick Hendricksz Boom by van Riebeeck on his departure from the Cape in 1662 and was again sold in 1665 to Matthijs Coeijmans together with her daughter Zwarte Maria and the fostered child Lysbeth Saunders, daughter of Lysbeth Arabus. While under the ownership of Boom, Anna gave birth to Zwarte Maria Evert.
Anna started having a relationship with Evert while she was still van Riebeeck’s slave and in 1671 Evert bought Anna and her daughter Zwarte Maria and thus freed them from slavery. From this time Evert and Anna were living as man and wife.
Evert did not have as hard a life at the Cape as did Anna van Guinea and his daughter Zwarte Maria. He had been given his freedom in 1659 (manumitted), by van Riebeeck and, is noted in history as the first male slave to be freed.
Freed slaves became part of what was recorded as the ‘Free Black’ population, which also included migrants of colour such as Merdijker soldiers from islands like Ambon in Southeast Asia, or sailors, or traders and adventurers.
Jayden Cox
Later in 1669 Evert van Guinea was granted a plot of land by Commander Jacob Borghorst near Roeland Street and Tuynhuys, where he lived and ran a market garden, growing fruit and vegetables.
It was a sizeable plot of prime land in the middle of Cape Town with good access to water and later he extended it by buying the plot adjoining his land from Hendrik Evertsz Schmidt in 1678.
Later in life, Evert moved to Stellenbosch where he was the first of the early pioneer Free Black farmer starting the farm Welgelegen. Anna died in 1684 and Evert died in 1688. They had laid a firm foundation for their daughter’s success at farming.
Zwarte Maria, so named because of her deep black complexion, was born into slavery at the Fort de Goede Hoop and was sold with her mother, by Boom, to their next owner Coeijmans. Their freedom was purchased by Evert van Guinea and from Coeijmans. She was 8 years old at the time. From the age of 13 in 1676 when she was baptised along with her mother, Zwarte Maria Evert began to blossom.
Having been a slave for all of her formative years, she was already a hard worker when she helped in the market garden. She watched Evert and learned to farm and her very able entrepreneurship was born out of her engagement with selling the produce for Evert from the market garden. Evert taught her how to make deals and how one could acquire land. Through this she became shrewd at business and began investing in land. Zwarte Maria made many contacts and developed strong networks as an entrepreneur of note.