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Why did Afrikaners establish apartheid in 1948? During the seventeenth century South Africa was colonized by English and Dutch, the decedents of the Dutch settlers became known as as Boers who were determined to live by their own rules and not to be controlled by anyone else, they wanted economical end geographical control, but most of all the wanted to be segregated from all non-whites, the wanted Apartheid: Afrikaans: "apartness", a policy that governed relations between South Africa's white minority and black majority, sanctioned racial segregation and political and economical discrimination against non-whites. In 1838 their journey to gain the power that they longed for began. Since the Dutch and the British set foot in South Africa the British had gained control over the Dutch, but on December 16th 1836 the Afrikaners disobeyed British rule, and made the Great Trek from the cape to Transvaal to fight in the battle...

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