... capital there. Also the number of settlers increased in the Cape because of the merchant-capitalist economy. Also in late 19th century rich deposits of diamonds and gold were discovered. Which in turn, required a labor force to "dig the wealth" and created "working class of Africa". By the late mid-19th century ... Africa in 1860's and 1880's South Africa" price was unlimited. As Eric Hobsbawm argues, "whatsoever the motive for Boer War was gold". However, Peter Calvocoressi suggests that not only gold was a major reason for Boer war. The second major reason for Boer War of 1899-1902 wa...

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... route to India. The British didn't fear losing South Africa--there was nothing there except Boers and Zulus. Nothing there, that is, until 1870--gold and diamonds were discovered. The British decided to annex all of South Africa to save their route to India. They endured a crushing defeat at the ... her prestige as the "merchant nation" and to retain her vital role as the prime figure in the international trade scene. The discovery of gold in the Dutch South African territory then known as Transvaal in 1866 led to Britain's first real vie at African land, and to her first ... is one the b...

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... over territory and expanding their spheres of influence. Other important factors made Africa the hot spot for British and European expansion including the discovery of gold in the Transvaal and diamonds in the Orange Free State, the palm oil industry in Nigeria, scientific discoveries such as the way to treat ... special case and significance of the Cape Colony and British Afrikaner relations. Britain's early presence in Africa was exclusive to Sierra Leone, Gambia, The Gold Coast and The Cape Colony. They gained control of these areas in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. It is not...

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... weaker ones to promote their own national self-interest, out of economic, religious, cultural, or other reasons. It has been said that the three primary motives for establishing colonies were gold, God, and glory, but the main incentives were usually economic. A Economic Motives The colonizing country could control important markets for its exports (such as cotton products) and deny ... both to trade within a country and to imports because exports brought more money into the country. They also believed that the wealth of a nation depended primarily on the possession of gold and silver. M...

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... over territory and expanding their spheres of influence. Other important factors made Africa the hot spot for British and European expansion including the discovery of gold in the Transvaal and diamonds in the Orange Free State, the palm oil industry in Nigeria, scientific discoveries such as the way to treat ... special case and significance of the Cape Colony and British Afrikaner relations. Britain's early presence in Africa was exclusive to Sierra Leone, Gambia, The Gold Coast and The Cape Colony. They gained control of these areas in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. It is not...

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... November 1509, Juan de Esquivel's seventy man party established the settlement of Seville la Nueva near present day St. Ann's Bay. The Spanish settlers soon found that Jamaica had little gold or silver, and as a result the island would remain a backwater of the empire. Esquivel did establish a ship building yard to repair galleons destined for more important colonies, ... the indigenous population to Catholicism and obtaining strategic positions to protect Spanish interests. Thus the Spanish crown discarded Jamaica quite quickly when it was apparent that it possessed few gold deposits, ...

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... victory against the Italians approximately 4000 Italian soldiers died (www.sahistory.org.za). The Asante Resistance- before slave trade ended the British were interested expanding their economic influence into the Gold Coast (modern day Ghana). This was met with a resistance from the Asante kingdom. The Asante were able to defend their interests and freedom for a long duration of time but the ... British did defeat the Asante in 1874 at the Battle of Amoafo- this paved the way for colonial rule in the gold coast. (www.sahistory.org.za). Samori Ture- While colonizing in West Africa the F...

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... her political influence altered. To imperial supporters in the 1890's the South African problem seemed to be at its climax. The main conflict of interest lay in the discovery of gold and the growth of the Rand after 1886, when the Transvaal replaced Cape Colony as the economic center of South Africa. The peak of British imperialism coincided with the identification ... African societies for land and livestock, and only communicated with the outside world by the long ox-wagon routes passing through the British colonies to the coast. The discovery of gold created a vast influx of British ...

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... current capitalist state of the world are Britain. One early English explorer to visit Africa was William Hawkins who in the 1530's made voyages to Guinea to obtain ivory and gold, commodities the area was rich in, at this stage in history it did not appear that Britain had a great interest in the trade of human slaves. It wasn't until Hawkins ... ...

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... Indian Government Service. V P Menon was born in Malabar, Kerala in 1894. As a schoolboy, he ran away from home to spare his family the cost of his education. He worked in a gold mine in Mysore and then as an English teacher. In 1914 he joined the Government Service as an assistant in the Home Department. He was drafted into the Reforms Department ... ...

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... no effort at all to the village and family units of Africa' (Matheson, H, 1935, 0387). The fist fledgeling steps towards local broadcasting to Africans were in West Africa. In the gold coast, broadcasting was first confined to rediffusion of the Empire Service and local programming was introduced later. In 1937, the Northern Rhodesia governor informed the Secretary of State Ormsby-Gore ... ...

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... -masse to escape British control and establish a country under their own rule. As the Boers moved further north across the Vaal River into the Transvaal, they stumbled onto the richest gold deposits known to exist. This new found source of wealth, and the imperialistic fervor that was prevalent at the time, set the stage for war between the British and Boers ... ...

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