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This project provides an informative overview of all the projects on SA Progenitors, & is NOT intended to have profiles attached to it. It is all-embracing and aims to have no political influences or connotations.
We pay tribute to all our progenitors & their descendants, who are more than bodies of data on a World Tree, but embody, in us, the Bantu principle of “Ubuntu” – I am because we are. The history of South Africa is a long road of interracial wars and domination, and where we are today is not yet a resolution:
There is a South Africa from which we have departed, a regime that we have conquered, an old order that is behind us. But there is a new South Africa that we have not entered. A new South Africa for which we continue to long, to yearn and to strive: the New Land of our dreams. And in between these two countries there is this time and place we are now – a land that is not the same as the land from which we departed in 1994, yet a land that is not yet the land of our dreams – a land between the two lands, a time between the two times. Rev Bongani Finca in 'South African Voices'
Often not so very clear cut where from or what nationality those that came to South Africa were from .
Presbyterians from Scotland to Netherlands to the Cape. Or ethnic Germans from Poland to the Cape .
Protestants from Italy or Switzerland to France to Netherlands to the Cape .
IMPORTANT to remember the countries we identify today did not always exist or had the same borders.
Germany a very good example.
Jewish settlers came from Europe ==Ashkenazi or Ladino -Spain and also North Africa or the Middle East or further east -- mostly Sephardic . but even that not so clear cut .
Another example - British German Legion . not all of them originated from modern Germany borders . French , Belgian , Swiss and Italians amogst them
The British German Legion, British Swiss Legion, British Italian Legion -- https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/+/http://yourarchi...
All Progenitors in SA
Progenitors from Southern Africa
- Indigenous People of South Africa (The San and KhoeKhoen People)
- Nguni Peoples 1700s-1800s
Progenitors from Europe
- Mapping The First Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope
- South African Settlers - Portuguese
- South African Settlers - Nordic (Norway, Sweden, Denmark)
- South African Settlers Croatian Settlers
- South African Settlers Swiss
- Dutch Settlers of South Africa may include Flemish and settlers from old Spanish Netherlands now Belgium -- The Low Countries
- Huguenot Settlers in SA -- In total some 180 Huguenots from France, and 18 Walloons from present-day Belgium, eventually settled at the Cape of Good Hope
- 1820 British Settlers in South Africa
- South African Settlers- British (other than 1820 Settlers)
- The Children's Friend Society
- German Settlers in South Africa
- South African Settlers - Other European Austria; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Poland , Finland .
Progenitors From Further Afield
- South African Progenitors - Slaves
- South African Settlers - Chinese
- South African Settlers - Indian
- South African Settlers - Jewish
- South African Settlers --Other Countries To include in time Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South American Countries, United States and any other countries that crop up!
Ethnic Groups and Origins
Indigenous pre -1600
Indigenous People of South Africa (San and KhoiKhoi)
- Khoisan
- Bushmen
- Khoikhoi
- !Kung
Nguni (See also Kruger 2 Canyons Tribal History) Nguni
- Bamalete
- Ndebele (See extract below)
- Swazi
- Zulu (Fingo · Khumalo)
- amaXhosa The creation of the major political groupings of the southern Nguni area, the Xhosa, the Thembu,the Mpondo & the Mpondomise, resulted from the rise of particular descent groups, respectively, the Tshawe, Hala, Nyawazu & Majola to a position of dominance over their localities. The extension of their power was a slow process, beginning long before the more dramatic creation of the Zulu state in northern Nguniland, & continuing right up to the Colonial conquest. [Peires, JB. ‘The House of Phalo’. Johannesburg, SA, Raven Press, 1981. Print p23]
Sotho-Tswana
- Basotho/S.
- Sotho (Extract below) (Bakoena · Bataung · Batlokwa) See also Kruger 2 Canyons Tribal History Sotho
- Pedi/N. Sotho (Balobedu · Mabelane) and Southern and Northern Sotho
- Tswana Kruger 2 Canyons Tribal History
Other
Settlers and Immigrants post 1600
- Dutch includes Flemish
- Huguenot The majority from France, but not all, and not all necessailly actually Huguenouts either e.g. Francois Villion
- German -- From area what is now Germany .
- Britain >> United Kingdom ' ( English / Welsh / Sottish / Irish )
- Jews
- Portuguese
- Nordic Settlers Norway, Sweden, Denmark
- Swiss
- Polish Some here from then Russia , Lithuania or Prussia .
- Other Europeans Austria; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Poland
- Other Countries - Australia, Canada, Indonesia, To include in time New Zealand, South American Countries, United States and any other countries that crop up!
- Chinese
[http://www.geni.com/projects/South-African-Settlers-Indian/9659- Cape Malay
- Coming Home by Munadia Karaan
- Griqua
- The Griquas
Interesting Sources and Suggested Reading
- GISA - Genealogical Institute of South Africa
- The Genealogical Society of South Africa
- Stamouers www.stamouers.com (Special mention)
- 50 Years Project
- First Fifty Years Project
- Passenger List
- TANAP
- VOC
- Wikipedia
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See Also Related Geni Project Pages:
- SA Progenitors on Geni
- South African Genealogical Reference Centre
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