The making of modern South Africa

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  1. 1. Language spoken by South Africans of Dutch descent
  2. 4. Boers who left the Cape to form their own republics inland
  3. 7. Location of rich gold field discovered in 1886
  4. 10. This time of unrest among African people emptied the countryside
  5. 13. The "Cape" is actually the Cape of ...
  6. 14. Attempt to overthrow Boer rule in Transvaal in 1895, ... Raid
  7. 15. In 1833, this was abolished in the British Empire
  8. 17. African people defeated by British forces in 1879
  9. 18. Britain seized the Cape in 1815 to secure its trade with this country
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  1. 2. Independent Boer republic, the Orange ... State
  2. 3. White South Africans of Dutch background
  3. 5. This town was the centre of the diamond industry
  4. 6. Along with the Cape, this was one of Britain's two colonies in South Africa
  5. 8. One of the two independent Boer republics
  6. 9. First European people to establish a colony at the Cape
  7. 11. South Africans of mixed descent, most of whom lived in the Cape
  8. 12. Brown-skinned native South African hunter-gatherers
  9. 16. Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1890-96, Cecil ...