Annexure – Southern Africa Timeline of Deception
The herein timeline of historical events, both global and locally for Southern Africa are what we find to have led to our current state of poverty, subjections to unjust laws and system of global dominance by a few.
The timeline is by no means complete, but getting the information out for education is what is most important. If we do not know where we come from, we do not know where we are going.
500 BPSettled Iron Age communities in sub-Saharan Africa (agriculture)
2200 BPIt is estimated that some San groups in present-day northern Botswana acquire domesticated livestock and became pastoralists (Khoikhoi). They move south, and their new socio-economic order leads them to be anthropologically described as Khoikhoi hunter-herders.
2000 BPKhoikhoi herders reach the southern tip of Africa.
c. AD 200Farming communities acquainted with the use of iron, and regarded as the forebears of Bantu-speaking people, establish themselves south of what becomes known as the Limpopo River. Start of the southern African Iron Age period.
c. AD 400Early Iron Age people settled in what is now known as Kwa-Zulu Natal.
c. AD 500Early Iron Age people develop a new form of pottery. This form is best represented in pottery fragments that have been assembled and subsequently become known as the Lydenburg Heads.
c. AD 600Iron Age people settle along the south-eastern seaboard as far as Mpame, in the region later to be known as the Transkei.
c. AD 600Beginnings of the Late Iron Age in the Southern Africa region lead to a greater concentration of settlement on the central Highveld of Southern Africa.
c. AD 800800 – 1400 Larger farming communities of the Iron Age settle in the Limpopo River area, marking the settlement of Nguni-speaking people in South Africa (later split to form Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi and Ndebele groups). Their move down to South Africa from areas in West Africa (mainly) was possibly driven by too dry a climate there during the Medieval Warm Epoch, between 900 and 1290.
c. 10301030 – 1290 Middle Iron Age people begin to establish what is now known as the Mapungubwe kingdom. The Southern Terrace below Mapungubwe hilltop that was inhabited from around AD 1030 to 1290 was rediscovered by archeologists in the 1930s.
c. 13001300 - c. 1500 Nguni communities settle along the south-eastern seaboard and in the Drakensberg interior. The Highveld interior becomes populated by Sotho speaking people (later split to form South Sotho (Basuto and Sesotho), the West Sotho (Tswana), and the North Sotho (Sepedi))
The Khoi-Khoi and San, their distant brothers are established as the dominant power in the Southern and South-Western Cape regions.
Around AD1400, European power centers coalesced into two camps:
the Ghibellines, who supported the Emperors Hohenstaufen family
the Guelphs, from Welf, the German prince who competed with Frederick for control of the Holy Roman Empire
The Pope allied himself with the Guelphs. All modern history stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.
The Guelphs are also called the Neri, Black Guelphs, or Black Nobility, and supported William of Orange in his seizure of the throne of England, which eventually resulted in the formation of the Bank of England and the East India Company, which would rule the world from the 17th century. All coup d’etats, revolutions and wars in the 19th and 20th centuries are centered in the battle of the Guelphs to hold and enhance their power, which is now the New World Order.
The power of the Guelphs would extend through the Italian financial centers to the north of France in Lombardy (all Italian bankers were referred to as "Lombards"). Lombard in German means "deposit bank", and the Lombards were bankers to the entire Medieval world. They would later transfer operations north to Hamburg, then to Amsterdam and finally to London.
1460Portuguese navigators, representing the interests of the Portuguese Royal House and merchants eager to find a sea-route to India around the south coast of Africa, reach the coast of Guinea, West Africa.
1473Prominent amongst the causes which stimulated the reception of the Roman Law in this its latest phase was the establishment of the Great Council at Mechlin in the year 1473 with jurisdiction over all the provinces of the Netherlands then subject to the Duke of Burgundy. This Court, which continued to exist until the War of Independence, did much to assimilate the law in the various provinces, and thus exercised a jurisdiction comparable to that of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council or (in a narrower field) of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa at the present day. Nicholaus Everardus, one of our earliest authorities for the Roman-Dutch Law, was President of this Court in 1528.
If we ask to what extent the Roman Law was received in the Netherlands in general and in the province of Holland in particular, we incur the risk of taking sides in a controversy of rival schools. There are those who regard Grotius, Van Leeuwen, Voet, and the other romanists as traitors to the law of their country, which, it is inferred, they enslaved to an alien system.
1483Diogo Câo, a navigator acting under the instruction of the Portuguese King John II, reaches the mouth of the Congo River.
1485Câo puts ashore at Cape Cross, north of present-day Walvis Bay.
1487The Portuguese explorer Bartholomeus Dias sails down the coast to reach southern Angola. He later lands at present-day Walvis Bay and soon after at Lüderitz Bay.
1488Dias succeeds in circumnavigating the Cape, naming it "Cabo de Bõa Esperança" or the Cape of Good Hope. This is a major breakthrough in the search for discovering a sea-route to India.
1495With the ascension of Manuel I to the Portuguese throne, the Royal House of Portugal strengthens its support of the scientific maritime investigation into finding a sea trade route to India.
1497Vasco da Gama is mandated to expand on Dias' discoveries. Da Gama departs from Targus on 8 July 1497, heading an expedition consisting of two ships, São Rafael and São Gabriel. They sail along the southern African coast on the way to India. They put foot on South African soil for the first time on 8 November at present-day St. Helena Bay on the west coast and encounter the first Khoi-Khoi. Da Gama gives the following description of them in his diary: 'The inhabitants of this country are tawny-coloured. Their food is confined to the flesh of seals, whales and gazelles, and the roots of herbs. They are dressed in skins, and wear sheaths over their virile members. They are armed with poles of olive wood to which a horn, browned in the fire, is attached...'Further east Da Gama and his crew sight the Natal coast on Christmas Day and name it "Terra do Natal", which is Portuguese for "Land of Birth" (Christmas).
1498Da Gama reaches the mouth of the Limpopo River during the first weeks and lands 85km north of it, where he meets the first Black people, probably a Tsonga society living north of the Limpopo. Next, he goes ashore at the northern branch of the Zambezi delta, where he encounters Moslems. He crosses the Indian Ocean with the help of the famous Arabian pilot, Ahmad ibn-Mayid, and reaches India via the Cape of Malabar, thereby establishing the Portuguese monopoly of the sea trade route to India.
1510On 1 March 1510 Francisco De Almeida, the Portuguese Viceroy of India, led a punitive expedition against the Khoi-Khoi clan aka Goringhaikhoe/ Huri ! Xai Khoe (Kaapmans) on Woodstock beach. The gallant Goringhaikhoe, acting in accordance with their heroic traditions in the defence of their homeland, sent the invaders reeling back in dismay, disorder and defeat.
In the Cape, Francisco De Almeida came in contact with the indigenous people, who were the Khoe Khoen (Hottentots), and the San (Boesman). Latest research indicates that the Khoe Khoen moved away from the hunter-gatherer existence to a cattle herding mode of survival. Academia is split with regards to the origin and the migration route of the Cape Khoe Khoen from the Northern region in Botswana. According to the research done by G.M. Theal and G. Stow, it was previously accepted that that the Khoe Khoen had its origin in East Africa and from there migrated in a westward direction across the sub-continent to Angola. From there they moved down along the coast of Namibia to the Northwestern Cape, and the Southwestern Cape and then eastwardly to Eastern Cape. Latest research indicates that the earliest Khoe Khoen herders moved out of the Botswana region in the direction of Matabeleland then what is today known as Transvaal all along the Harts river till the !Gariep (Orange river). From there the main group spilt in two; one group the forefathers of the Nama moved westward till the mouth of the !Gariep. There the group split again; one moving north, and the other south. Last mentioned group would later meet the Cape Khoe khoen north of the Cape. The other group, who were the forefather of the Cape Khoe, moved in the direction of the Vis- and Sondags– river, where the group known as the Gonakhoe migrated east, while the forefathers of the Attakhoe, Hessekhoe, Kochokhoe, and the Cape Peninsula Khoe khoen traveled west past Mossel bay till in the region of St. Helena bay.
1520Alumbrados: (The first record of Illuminati) a follower of a mystical movement in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries. Its adherents claimed that the human soul, having attained a certain degree of perfection, was permitted a vision of the divine and entered into direct communication with the Holy Spirit. From this state the soul could neither advance nor retrogress. Consequently, participation in the liturgy, good works, and observance of the exterior forms of religious life were unnecessary for those who had received the “light.” The Alumbrados came primarily from among the reformed Franciscans and the Jesuits, but their doctrines seem to have influenced all classes of people. The extravagant claims made for their visions and revelations caused them to be relentlessly persecuted. The Inquisition issued edicts against them on three occasions (1568, 1574, and 1623). — Encyclopedia Britannica
In the Society of Jesus, he [Ignatius Loyola] set up six degrees for advancement, which are the same as in Freemasonry; its doctrines are similar to those of the Jewish Mishnah. — Eustace Mullins / The Curse of Canaan
...from 1520 on Ignatius Loyola was a member of an Illuminati sect in Salamanca called Alombrados; in 1527 he was tried by an ecclesiastical commission, because of his membership in this sect; he was acquitted.
— Eustace Mullins / The Curse of Canaan
1580The Octrooito the East India Company of January 10, 1661, which, together with the Political Ordinance of 1580 and the Interpretation thereof of 1594, defines the law of intestate succession for the whole of Roman-Dutch South Africa.
1602The two great trading companies of East and West, the Dutch East India Company incorporated in 1602, and the Dutch West India Company incorporated in 1621, carried the Roman-Dutch Law into their settlements.
How far the statutes of the mother country were in force in these Colonies the evidence hardly allows us to say. On principle they would not apply unless expressly declared to be applicable, or at least unless locally promulgated; but some may have been accepted by custom as part of the common law. As regards laws of the patria passed subsequently to the date of settlement it may be thought that the burden of proof lies on him who alleges their application. The fact is that the States-General legislated but seldom for the Colonies, having delegated their functions in this regard to the two Chartered Companies of East and West. These acted through their Committees, the Councils of XVII and the Council of X respectively; and the East India Company also, through its Governor-General in Batavia, issued rules for the government of the various stations, which, if locally promulgated, had binding force until superseded or forgotten. In addition to these there were the enactments of the local governors. Failing all the above and any colonial custom having the force of law, recourse was had to ‘the laws statutes and customs of the United Netherlands’ and, where these were silent, in the last resort to the Law of Rome.
Edict of 1625 by Pieter de Carpentier, Governor General of the United East Indies Company (VOC);
1652 Jan van Riebeeck establishes first white colony in the Cape.
The phrase ‘Roman-Dutch Law’ was invented by Simon van Leeuwen, who employed it as the subtitle of his work entitled Paratitula Juris Novissimi, published at Leyden in 1652 and republished in 1656. Subsequently his larger and better known treatise on the ‘Roman-Dutch Law’ was issued under that name in the year 1664. The system of law thus described is that which obtained in the province of Holland during the existence of the Republic of the United Netherlands. Its main principles were carried by the Dutch into their settlements in the East and West Indies; and when some of these, namely the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, and part of Guiana, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, passed under the dominion of the Crown of Great Britain,
1657Oliver Cromwell grants religious freedom to Jews Protocols of the Elders of Sion
16881688 – 1700: 200 French Huguenots arrive in Cape from where Afrikaner Nationalism arose
1700The first "placaat" (ordinance or statute) restricting the importation of Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay and settle on land north of the Phongolo River; thereby forming the core of the future Swazi nation.Free burghers are permitted to trade with local Khoi-Khoi chiefdoms. The latter suffer economic decline, a direct result of the terms of the trading system set by the Dutch. At the advice of Cape Governor W.A. van der Stel, the Dutch colonial administration annuls its policy of forbidding the inland trek of migrant stock farmers or Trek Boers. This paves the way for unencumbered colonial expansion. The boundaries extend north and include Winterberg, Witzenberg and Roodezand, later called Tulbagh.
170113 March, Khoi-Khoi raid more than 40 cattle of Dutch farmers at the Cape. (Wallis)
1702Trafficking cattle and ivory at the Cape colony is firmly established. An expedition of ivory traffickers unsuccessfully attacks AmaXhosa for cattle. They lift cattle from Khoi-Khoi instead. This attack is the first recorded evidence of encounters of colonists with the AmaXhosa. In an attempt to put a stop to cattle raiding and other forms of brigandage by Trek Boers, the VOC imposes a temporary ban on free trading with the Khoi-Khoi at the Cape.
1703Licences are issued to stock farmers, allowing them to graze their cattle beyond formal colonial boundaries on the land of the Khoi-Khoi. This is an attempt to increase their productivity. It is estimated that whereas colonists owned 8 300 head of cattle and 54 000 sheep in 1700, by 1710 this number had increased to 20 000 head of cattle and 131 000 sheep.
1704The free Trade Embargo against the Khoi-Khoi is dropped
1706Adam Tas, representing farming burghers, draws up a formal memorandum of complaint, which is addressed to the Directorate of the VOC in Batavia. In the memorandum the signatories accuse Governor W.A. van der Stel and Company officials of illicit farming and trading, illegal landholding and setting up of illicit monopolies on the sale of wine, wheat and meat. The Governor orders the arrest and detention of Tas and 60 signatories. However, the VOC removes the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Chaplain and the Landdrost (magistrate) from their posts and all the land in possession of company officials has to be disposed of. In addition, the monopolies are rescinded. This meant that the VOC re-asserted the official Company policy with regards to prohibiting the involvement of Company officials in farming and trading activities and restricting them to their official administrative responsibilities.
1710 – 1720 A continuing surplus of wheat and wine results in a price slump with serious consequences for the wholly agrarian Cape economy.
1713A group of Cape slaves desert the immediate Cape Colony and attempt to establish a life for themselves to the north-west. They are captured and severely punished. Thomas van Bengalen is hanged, while Tromp van Madagascar, the leader, is sentenced to death by impalement. Van Madagascar commits suicide in jail. The rest of the captured slaves have their Achilles tendons severed or their feet otherwise broken on the wheel.
1713March, An outbreak of smallpox, introduced by crew and passengers of a passing ship, results in the death of 25% of the White population and virtual decimation of the south-western Cape Khoi-Khoi who have no resistance against this disease. The decimation of the Khoi-Khoi results in an acute labour shortage. Tracts of land become "ownerless". Colonial cattle farmers appropriate this land. Further outbreaks of smallpox occur in 1755 and most seriously in 1767, which registers three separate outbreaks.