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OK, so the Portuguese were the first to discover the area and set up some bases, then the Dutch came along to start settlements followed by Great Britain and France. The Boers and Afrikaners are made up of multiple European ancestries, mainly Dutch, German, and British . The Afrikaan language is Germanic. Johannesburg is not (to my mistake) named after a German, but rather two Dutch guys. So were/when does Germany come in with serious colonization? Was it not until WWI?
Germany started quite late to run into the Scramble for Africa race: 1884.About French involvement in South Africa, most were Huguenots escaping religious persecution, not real colons. The first europeans to settle deep inland and for a long time were the Holländers (boers = peasants)Modify : I think that France was not involved into the colonisation of that part of Africa
Even 1884 seems early for South Africa. After Willie got rid of Bismark and started German imperialism, it was mostly in northern Africa and the Congo region. The Union of South Africa wasn't until 1910 which the British administered. Still thinking the Germans didn't really get there until at least WWI until proven wrong.Voortrekkers - this is where I think the Germans come into the picture. They never colonized it like the Dutch and British, but I'm wondering if the demographics of this group consisted of a lot of Germans. (this is what I've been trying to find all weekend)
