Control of South Africa in the 1800s

From the 1800s, European countries began to take control of coastal areas in Africa (e. g. French Algeria, the British Cape Colony in modern-day South Africa). Even so, by 1880 only small areas of the African continent were under European rule.

Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of Dispossession between the Khoi-San of the colonial authorities