HIstory and culure of Southern Africa

For 1000's of years the Africans were living simple lives hunting animals and building communities. The Khoisan were one the biggest tribes in southern Africa, they were divided in to many ethnic groups and lived mostly of hunting and herding. Another big tribe was the Bantu who brought with their migration a lot of new languages and tools. Great Zimbabwe was an empire built by the Shona for trading purposes, the word Zimbabwe meant great walls.

many Europeans such as Dutch, French and German settled in certain regions of Africa, their descendants were called Afrikaners. Because of the Europeans in Africa a new language was developed, it was named Afrikaans after the the Afrikaners that developed it. Afrikaans is a mix of dutch and Khoisan and a few Bantu words but through time it has been adapted with German, French, and English.

By the 1900's South Africa's goverment was ruled by white Afrikaners thus increasing the amount of racial discrimination in the country. As a result the ANC ( African National Congress) was formed in 1902