Cape Town History of Cape Town Museum
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The first settlement around the Cape of Good Hope was a Dutch East India Company supply post opened in 1634 that quickly grew into a colony. And developed the language Afrikaans.
The colonisation spread inwards across the country over the next 150 years, and by the time the British annexed Cape Town in 1806, much of South Africa was defined.
Over the next 100 years, Diamonds were discovered in the Northern Cape region around Kimberley, and the population of South Africa exploded threefold up until the Boer War 1899-1902.
Apartheid in South Africa separated the black and white population between 1948 and 1994, and led to many sanctions against the country. Since the lifting of the system, Cape Town has blossomed into the city it is today, a place that welcomes all races, and has the slogan "One City, Many Cultures".
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