In 1854, it was granted its first locally elected legislature, the Cape Parliament. The South African Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB (meaning Afrikaner Resistance Movement), a militant neo-Nazi, mainly Afrikaner white supremacist movement that arose in the 1970s, and was active until the mid-1990s, openly used a flag that closely resembled the swastika. Introduction: South Africa has a unique history of apartheid that has had significant implications on economic and social policies. Lennet South African Letesha South African Louw Afrikaans Louw is a surname that has pre 7th century Germanic origins. Thousands more served in the British Army directly, with over 3,000 joining the British Royal Flying Corps and over 100 volunteering for the Royal Navy. Pronounce it KAH-yah. Da Gama's fleet proceeded northwards to Zanzibar and later sailed eastwards, eventually reaching India and opening the Cape Route between Europe and Asia. In 1895, a column of mercenaries in the employ of Cecil John Rhodes' Rhodesian-based Charter Company and led by Captain Leander Starr Jameson had entered the ZAR with the intention of sparking an uprising on the Witwatersrand and installing a British administration there. Lynx Southern African, English. Claimants to the site included the South African (Transvaal) Republic, the Orange Free State Republic, and the mixed-race Griqua nation under Nicolaas Waterboer. Ababio - Origin: Ghanaian. Kaya (Southern African origin), meaning "restful place," and is a Zulu name pronounced KAH-yah. Griqualand then became a separate Crown Colony renamed Griqualand West in 1871, with a Lieutenant-General and legislative council. An attack on a Christian church in Cape Town in 1993, left eleven people dead and 58 injured. [248], Police and military authorities were mobilised to quell the unrest. In response, the stadtholder, who had taken up residence in England, issued the Kew Letters, ordering colonial governors to surrender to the British. By 1902, 26,000 Boer women and children had died of disease and neglect in the camps. This was accomplished after several years of negotiations, when the South Africa Act 1909 consolidated the Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State into one nation. The "aliens" objected to being denied parliamentary representation and the right to vote, and they complained also of bureaucratic government delays in the issuing of licenses and permits, and general administrative incompetence on the part of the government.[119]. Sandbox Learning is part of Sandbox & Co., a digital learning company. [91], The Bapedi wars, also known as the Sekhukhune wars, consisted of three separate campaigns fought between 1876 and 1879 against the Bapedi under their reigning monarch King Sekhukhune I, in the northeastern region known as Sekhukhuneland, bordering on Swaziland. [145], The early-1940s saw the pro-Nazi Ossewa Brandwag (OB) movement become half-a-million strong, including future prime minister John Vorster and Hendrik van den Bergh, the future head of police intelligence. Economically, South Africa supplied two-thirds of gold production in the British Empire, with most of the remainder coming from Australia. Aubrey Newman, Nicholas J Evans, J Graham Smith & Saul W Issroff. [197], From the 1940s to the 1960s, anti-apartheid resistance within the country took the form mainly of passive resistance, influenced in part by the pacifist ideology of Mahatma Gandhi. The British, who at that time controlled the area between the Orange and Vaal Rivers called the Orange River Sovereignty, decided a discernible boundary was necessary and proclaimed a line named the Warden Line, dividing the area between British and Basotho territories. There are 3,000 census records available for the last name South African. Prinsloo is an Afrikaans surname. [213] The Charter decreed that "the national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people; the mineral wealth beneath the soil, the banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people". [116] The conflict ended almost as soon as it began with a decisive Boer victory at Battle of Majuba Hill (27 February 1881). During the early-1990s, Poqo was renamed Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA). He then set out on a massive programme of expansion, killing or enslaving those who resisted in the territories he conquered. [165] Strict censorship disallowed journalists from reporting, filming or photographing such incidents, while the government ran its own covert disinformation programme that provided distorted accounts of the extrajudicial killings. Around 1800, they started crossing the northern frontier formed by the Orange River, arriving ultimately in an uninhabited area, which they named Griqualand. Estimates for the death toll resulting from the Mfecane range from 1 million to 2 million.[47][48][49][50]. Johnson: This surname is a patronymic of John. [143], General Jan Smuts was the only important non-British general whose advice was constantly sought by Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In 1688, the Dutch and the Germans were joined by French Huguenots, Calvinist Protestants fleeing religious persecution in France under its Catholic ruler, King Louis XIV. 77. 142168. The rebel leaders were prosecuted, fined heavily and sentenced to imprisonment ranging from six to seven years. Likewise the Indian element (led by Mahatma Gandhi) generally supported the war effort. It accelerated the formation of several new nation-states, notably those of the Sotho (present-day Lesotho) and the Swazi (now Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)). The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. [244], Civil unrest occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces in July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court, after he declined to testify at the Zondo Commission, an inquiry into allegations of corruption during his term as president from 2009 to 2018. "[185] The Angolan government described the target of the attack as a refugee camp. There are 1,000 military records available for the last name South African. The Portuguese mariner Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore the coastline of South Africa in 1488, while attempting to discover a trade route to the Far East via the southernmost cape of South Africa, which he named Cabo das Tormentas, meaning Cape of Storms. The role of the Boer settlers was replaced by subsidised British immigrants of whom 5,000 arrived between 1849 and 1851. [166] At the same time, State-sponsored vigilante groups carried out violent attacks on communities and community leaders associated with resistance to apartheid. [citation needed] Colin Newbury, "Technology, Capital, and Consolidation: The Performance of De Beers Mining Company Limited, 18801889". Ledwaba Southern African, South African, Zulu From Zulu meaning "rock". Those settlers who were allocated money could only claim it in Britain in person or through an agent. Kaya Female | Kaya means "restful place" and is a popular Zulu name. [199] From the 1960s onwards until 1989, MK carried out numerous acts of sabotage and attacks on military and police personnel. The Zulu resulted in the mass movement of many tribes who in turn tried to dominate those in new territories, leading to widespread warfare and waves of displacement spread throughout southern Africa and beyond. A significant number of the offspring from the white and slave unions were absorbed into the local proto-Afrikaans speaking white population. George McCall Theal, "Discovery of diamonds and its consequences", in. Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Meaning: 'Flower' or 'blossom.' 4. Similarly, schools, justice and trade up to the arrival of the British, were all managed in the Dutch language. [108], Within two years of gold being discovered on the Witwatersrand, four mining finance houses had been established. The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. [63], By 1860, with slavery having been abolished in 1834, and after the annexation of Natal as a British colony in 1843, the British colonists in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) turned to India to resolve a labour shortage, as men of the local Zulu warrior nation were refusing to work on the plantations and farms established by the colonists. [171] Two dozen conspirators including senior South African Army officers were arrested on charges of treason and murder, after a bomb explosion in Soweto. [30] Simon van der Stel, the first Governor of the Dutch settlement, famous for his development of the lucrative South African wine industry, was himself of mixed race-origin. They saw this as the best way to come to terms with the fact of a white Afrikaner majority, as well as to promote their larger strategic interests in the area. Many African last names reference wealth and the aristocracy. In 1896, the German Kaiser Kaiser Wilhelm had enraged Britain by sending congratulations to Boer republican leader Paul Kruger after Kruger's commandos captured a column of British South Africa Company soldiers engaged in an armed incursion and abortive insurrection, known historically as the Jameson Raid, into Boer territory. Origin: Ghanaian Meaning: "Child that keeps coming or reincarnation." Kanumba Origin: Tanzanian Meaning: Unknown. In 2007, less than half the protests were associated with some form of violence, compared with 2014, when almost 80% of protests involved violence on the part of the participants or the authorities. [235] Other corruption related scandals to emerge during this period included the collapse of VBS Mutual Bank[236] and Bosasa. Meaning: 'Lion.' 3. 4. In 1836, when Boer Voortrekkers (pioneers) arrived in the northwestern part of present-day South Africa, they came into conflict with a Ndebele sub-group that the settlers named "Matabele", under chief Mzilikazi. After an unsuccessful appeal for aid from the British Empire, Moshoeshoe signed the 1866 treaty of Thaba Bosiu, with the Basotho ceding substantial territory to the Orange Free State. Racial segregation and white minority rule known officially as apartheid, an Afrikaans word meaning "separateness", was implemented in 1948. The trade union movement was divided. Labour unrest in the industry resulted in a massacre in mid-August 2012, when anti-riot police shot dead 34 striking miners and wounded many more in what is known as the Marikana massacre. The flag of Republic of South Africa was adopted on 26 April 1994. [24], The British explorers David Livingstone and William Oswell, setting out from a mission station in the northern Cape Colony, are believed to have been the first white men to cross the Kalahari desert in 1849. Means "nation" in Xhosa. In 1845, a treaty was signed between the British colonists and Moshoeshoe, which recognised white settlement in the area. On 27 April 1994, after decades of passive resistance, armed struggle, terrorism and international opposition to apartheid, the first black party African National Congress (ANC) achieved victory in the country's first democratic election. The farmers complained they could not replace the labour of their slaves without losing an excessive amount of money. The diggings were located in an area of vague boundaries and disputed land ownership. [134] The South African government issued no war service medal to the black servicemen and the special medal issued by King George V to "native troops" that served the Empire, the British War Medal in bronze, was disallowed and not issued to the SANLC. Among the obstacles were the presence of the independent states of the South African Republic and the Kingdom of Zululand and its army. [139][140], About 334,000 South Africans volunteered for full-time military service in support of the Allies abroad. [191] South African involvement in Angola ended formally after the signing of a United Nations-brokered agreement known as the New York Accords between the governments of Angola, Cuba and South Africa, resulting in the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Angola and also South Africa's withdrawal from South West Africa (now Namibia), which the UN regarded as illegally occupied since 1966. Meanwhile, 34-year-old South African pacer Shabnim Ismail not only took three wickets but also registered her name in record books by bowling the fastest ball in women's cricket. Coetzee ( Afrikaans: [kutsi]) is an Afrikaans surname. [45] Shaka built large armies, breaking from clan tradition by placing the armies under the control of his own officers rather than of hereditary chiefs. 37. By January 1907, 53,000 Chinese labourers were working in the gold mines.[115]. [217], The immediate post-apartheid period was marked by an exodus of skilled, white South Africans amid crime related safety concerns. Afrikaner settlers in particular were loath to live under Moshoesoe's authority and among Africans.[84]. In the later annexation of the Zulu kingdom by imperial Britain, an Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879. About three thousand Zulu warriors died in the clash known historically as the Battle of Blood River.[81][82]. Further friction was caused by the refusal of Sekhukhune to allow prospectors to search for gold in territory he considered to be sovereign and independent under his authority. [168], The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) would later establish that a covert, informal network of former or still serving army and police operatives, frequently acting in conjunction with extreme right-wing elements, was involved in actions that could be construed as fomenting violence and which resulted in gross human rights violations, including random and targeted killings. The armed incursion became known as the Jameson Raid. Modern human settlement occurred around 125,000 years ago in the Middle Stone Age, as shown by archaeological discoveries at Klasies River Caves. The cash-strapped post-apartheid government was obliged to repay this debt or else face a credit downgrading by foreign financial institutions. South Africa's ports and harbours on the Home Front were a crucial strategic asset when conducting a war on a global scale. However, an ill-informed British attempt to force the states of southern Africa into a British federation led to inter-ethnic tensions and the First Boer War. [203], Hundreds of students and others who fled to neighbouring countries, especially Botswana, to avoid arrest after the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976, provided a fertile recruiting ground for the military wings of both the ANC and PAC. Ahishakiye (Rwandan origin) meaning "whenever God wants". Ade. Afrikaners were split, with some like Botha and Smuts taking a prominent leadership role in the British war effort. Today middle names are common among people with a Catholic, Protestant, Islamic or South Asian background. Afrikaans, previously regarded as a low-level Dutch patois, replaced Dutch as an official language of the Union. The country became a fully sovereign nation state within the British Empire, in 1934 following enactment of the Status of the Union Act. The first KhoikhoiDutch War broke out in 1659, the second in 1673, and the third 16741677. The Government of National Unity lapsed at the end of the first parliament sitting in 1999, with the ANC becoming the sole party in power while maintaining a strategic alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party. Rosenthal, Eric. In the Fourth Xhosa War, which lasted from 1811 to 1812, the British colonial authorities forced the Xhosa back across the Great Fish River and established forts along this boundary. The official statistics of blacks killed in action are inaccurate. It comes from a Punjabi word 'gil, which means 'prosperity'. Many urban blacks supported the war expecting it would raise their status in society. [9], Many more species of early hominid have come to light in recent decades. This Second AngloBoer War, also known as the South African War lasted longer than the first, with British troops being supplemented by colonial troops from Southern Rhodesia, Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand. For the veterans among your South African ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions. Religion was a very important aspect of the settlers culture and the bible and church services were in Dutch. At the Blombos cave Professor Raymond Dart discovered the skull of a 2.51 million year old Taung Child in 1924, the first example of Australopithecus africanus ever found. The oldest is Little Foot, a collection of footbones of an unknown hominid between 2.2 and 3.3 million years old, discovered at Sterkfontein by Ronald J. Clarke. 29. [152] On 11 March 1994, several hundred AWB members formed part of an armed right-wing force that invaded the nominally independent "homeland" territory of Bophuthatswana, in a failed attempt to prop up its unpopular, conservative leader Chief Lucas Mangope. The government declared martial law on 14 October 1914, and forces loyal to the government under the command of generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts defeated the rebellion. [3], European exploration of the African coast began in the 13th century when Portugal committed itself to discover an alternative route to the silk road that would lead to China. [200] The Truth and Reconciliation Commission noted in 2003 that, despite the ANC's stated policy of attacking only military and police targets, "the majority of casualties of MK operations were civilians. This territory and others in the region then became the Republic of the Orange Free State.[85]. The language law caused friction, distrust and dissatisfaction. In March 1858, after land disputes, cattle rustling and a series of raids and counter-raids, the Orange Free State declared war on the Basotho kingdom, which it failed to defeat. Retief Afrikaans Afrikaans form of Rtif. Kholwa Female | Kholwa is a name used in both the Zulu and Ndebele cultures and means "believe". [112], The working environment of the mines, meanwhile, as one historian has described it, was "dangerous, brutal and onerous", and therefore unpopular among local black Africans. The name is pronounced Col-u-WHA. 'The significance of the Cape trade route to economic activity in the Cape Colony: a medium-term business cycle analysis', European Review of Economic History, 14 (2010), pp. [109] In 1895 there was an investment boom in Witwatersrand gold-mining shares. Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) was introduced . The British elements strongly supported the war, and formed by far the largest military component. After the country's first multiracial democratic elections in 1994, a number of terrorist bomb blasts were linked to the AWB. Abebe: The genesis of this Ethiopian name is Amharic, and it means 'flower' or 'blossom'. The British suffragette Emily Hobhouse visited British concentration camps in South Africa and produced a report condemning the appalling conditions there. [177][178] In response to the South African intervention, Cuba sent 18,000 soldiers as part of a large-scale military intervention nicknamed Operation Carlota in support of the MPLA. The Cape and the VOC had to import Dutch farmers to establish farms to supply the passing ships as well as to supply the growing VOC settlement. Much later, in 1820 the British authorities persuaded about 5,000 middle-class British immigrants (most of them "in trade") to leave Great Britain. Starting from the mid-1800s, the Cape of Good Hope, which was then the largest state in southern Africa, began moving towards greater independence from Britain. Surnames of South African origin (5 C, 5 P) Surnames of Swaziland origin (1 P) Surnames of Tunisian origin (10 P) Surnames of West African origin (5 C, 3 P) Swahili-language surnames (4 P) T Surnames of Tanzania (1 P) Y Yoruba-language surnames (103 P) Z Zambian surnames (33 P) Zimbabwean surnames (12 P) Afumba (Zambian origin) meaning "when they plan". Da Gama gave the name Natal to the coast he was passing, which in Portuguese means Christmas. 2022 Sandbox Networks Inc. All rights reserved. The death penalty was abolished, land reform and redistribution policies were introduced, and equitable labour laws legislated. In 1828 Shaka was killed by his half-brothers Dingaan and Umhlangana. They moved about 500 miles eastward, over the Quathlamba (today known as the Drakensberg mountain range), settling ultimately in an area officially designated as "Nomansland", which the Griquas renamed Griqualand East. Ross, Robert, Anne Kelk Mager and Bill Nasson, eds. [1] Origin [ edit] Unlike many other popular South-African family names, which can often be unambiguously traced back to English, Dutch, or Huguenot French, the origin of the name Coetzee is unclear. [23] The advancing Bantu encroached on the Khoikhoi territory, forcing the original inhabitants of the region to move to more arid areas. "Untold History with a Historiography: A Review of Scholarship on Afrikaner Women in South African History.". The war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, including an overwhelming victory by the Zulu at the Battle of Isandlwana, as well as for being a landmark in the timeline of imperialism in the region. From 2629 April 1994, the South African population voted in the first universal suffrage general elections. Abioye (Yoruba origin) meaning "son of royalty". The reinforcements arrived in Durban 20 days later; the siege was broken and the Voortrekkers retreated. In 1824 a party of 25 men under British Lieutenant F G Farewell arrived from the Cape Colony and established a settlement on the northern shore of the Bay of Natal, which would later become the port of Durban, so named after Benjamin D'Urban, a governor of the Cape Colony. Dingaan also attempted to establish relations with the British traders on the Natal coast, but events had started to unfold that would see the demise of Zulu independence. Prosecutions before the courts of the Union of South Africa were instituted in the name of the Crown and government officials served in the name of the Crown. [142] A number of South African fighter pilots served with distinction in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, including Group Captain Adolph "Sailor" Malan who led 74 Squadron and established a record of personally destroying 27 enemy aircraft. The discoveries also led to new conflicts culminating in open warfare between the Boer settlers and the British Empire, fought essentially for control over the nascent South African mining industry. Genocide: A History. Over 7,000 South Africans were killed, and nearly 12,000 were wounded during the course of the war. It is among the most common African last names. The United Nations Security Council on 6 May 1978 condemned South Africa for the attack. [202] The Africanists broke away from the ANC to form the Pan-Africanist Congress and its military wing named Poqo, which became active mainly in the Cape provinces. Infographic: Top African Surnames Rich In History And Culture Most Popular African Last Names Or Surnames 1. Frere, on his own initiative, without the approval of the British government and with the intent of instigating a war with the Zulu, had presented an ultimatum on 11 December 1878, to the Zulu king Cetshwayo with which the Zulu king could not comply. Lerato (Southern African origin), meaning "love" in Sotho, pronounced LE-raa-too. The convention came into force on 18 July 1976. Just as he had done in 1919, Smuts urged the delegates to create a powerful international body to preserve peace; he was determined that, unlike the League of Nations, the UN would have teeth. It was inhabited by Australopithecines since at least 2.5 million years ago. Between 19601994, according to statistics from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Inkatha Freedom Party was responsible for 4,500 deaths, South African Police 2,700, and the ANC about 1,300. [169] The prehistory and history of South Africa span nearly the entire known existence of human beings and their ancestorssome three million years or moreand include the wandering of small bands of hominins through the savanna, the inception of herding and farming as ways of life, and the construction of large urban centres. 3. The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. In September 1854, 28 Boers accused of cattle rustling were killed in three separate incidents by an alliance of the Ndebele chiefdoms of Mokopane and Mankopane. It is the tenth most common family name in the Republic of South Africa. British policy with regard to South Africa would vacillate with successive governments, but the overarching imperative throughout the 19th century was to protect the strategic trade route to India while incurring as little expense as possible within the colony. The 1820s saw a time of immense upheaval relating to the military expansion of the Zulu Kingdom, which replaced the original African clan system with kingdoms. Nala Origin: Somali, African Meaning: Us Alternative Spellings & Variations: Naala, Nale, Nahla, Nalla This name was adopted in the 17th century by Wesselius Praetorius as a Latin translation of his previous surname Schulte. From the outset of hostilities in October 1899 to the signing of peace on 31 May 1902 the war claimed the lives of 22,000 imperial soldiers and 7,000 republican fighters. 2. His impis (warrior regiments) were rigorously disciplined: failure in battle meant death.[46]. A majority of politically moderate Afrikaners were pragmatic and did not support the AWB's extremism. Mannan is also a Muslim surname. Friction between the Griquas and the settlers over land rights resulted in British troops being sent to the region in 1845. Cecil Rhodes and Charles Rudd followed, with their Gold Fields of South Africa company. Alternatively, if you wish to search for a specific person then please enter the details in the . When he did not pay the fine in full, a battle broke out on the Berea Plateau in 1852, where the British suffered heavy losses. In 1872, after a long political struggle, it attained responsible government with a locally accountable executive and Prime Minister. The small initial group of free burghers, as these farmers were known, steadily increased in number and began to expand their farms further north and east into the territory of the Khoikhoi. Origin: Tswana, Southern African Meaning: Blessed one, blessings Alternative Spellings & Variations: Sego Famous Namesakes: Masego Ntshingane, Botswanan athlete Peak Popularity: Masego isn't a very popular name in the United States. It marked the beginning of nine years of British intervention in the affairs of the region, which the British named Transorange. By 1952, the brief flame of mass-based white radicalism was extinguished, when the Torch Commando disbanded due to government legislation under the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950. Family Education is part of the Sandbox Learning family of educational reference sites for parents, teachers, and students. In 1818 differences between two Xhosa leaders, Ndlambe and Ngqika, ended in Ngqika's defeat, but the British continued to recognise Ngqika as the paramount chief. [24] Others, now known as the SothoTswana peoples (Tswana, Pedi, and Sotho), settled in the interior on the plateau known as the Highveld,[24] while today's Venda, Lemba, and Tsonga peoples made their homes in the north-eastern areas of present-day South Africa. Civilians were killed or injured in many of these robberies. 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