South Africa. First clash between the Dutch and the black Bantu people. The Dutch arrived in South Africa in 1652, starting from Cape Town, but encountered little organized resistance from the natives, only a few Khoisan villages. The Bantus, coming from Nigeria and Cameroon, stopped at the Fish River, 500 kilometers before Cape Town. Once the Dutch came into contact with the Bantus, armed with iron weapons, in 1702, there was violent fighting of uncertain outcome. The Dutch began advancing slowly, one or two kilometers a year, and it took them nine wars and 175 years to conquer South Africa. The Bantus stopped before Cape Town because their crops required summer rain crops, while European crops, on the other hand, required winter rain crops.
