United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). With a population of roughly 6 million, between 19141918, over 250,000 South Africans of all races voluntarily served their country. There are 642 immigration records available for the last name South African. The republic regained its independence as the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek ("South African Republic"), or ZAR. In 1895, a column of mercenaries in the employ of Cecil John Rhodes' Rhodesian-based Charter Company and led by Captain Leander Starr Jameson had entered the ZAR with the intention of sparking an uprising on the Witwatersrand and installing a British administration there. Its underground cells conducted armed robberies to raise funds and obtain weapons and vehicles. [70], In 1825, a faction of the Griqua people was induced by Dr John Philip, superintendent of the London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, to relocate to a place called Philippolis, a mission station for the San, several hundred miles southeast of Griqualand. Meaning: 'Lion.' 3. [24] To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. Anthony Egan, Review of "The Hidden Thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era" by Irina Filatova & Apollon Davidson, Phyllis Johnson & David Martin, Apartheid Terrorism: The destabilisation report, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, p.122, UN General Assembly, res n 2154 (XXI), 17 November 1966. [118] The enormous wealth of the mines was in the hands of European "Randlords" overseeing the mainly British foreign managers, mining foremen, engineers and technical specialists, characterised by the Boers as uitlander, meaning aliens. John Murray. [198] The armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto weSizwe (abbreviation MK, meaning Spear of the Nation) claimed moral legitimacy for the resort to violence on the grounds of necessary defence and just war. The apartheid-era South African military and political intelligence services, for their part, worked closely with American, British and West German secret services throughout the Cold War. By 1869, diamonds were found at some distance from any stream or river, in hard rock called blue ground, later called kimberlite, after the mining town of Kimberley where the diamond diggings were concentrated. 'Explaining the Ship Traffic Fluctuations in the Early Cape Settlement: 16521793', South African Journal of Economic History, 23 (2008), pp. Kaya Female | Kaya means "restful place" and is a popular Zulu name. The Zulu resulted in the mass movement of many tribes who in turn tried to dominate those in new territories, leading to widespread warfare and waves of displacement spread throughout southern Africa and beyond. Rhodes and Rudd had earlier made fortunes from diamond mining at Kimberley. Snyman Afrikaans Afrikaans version of the German surname Schneider, which is German for tailor. Nelson Mandela was elected as President on 9 May 1994 and formed a Government of National Unity, consisting of the ANC, the National Party and Inkatha. Surnames of South African origin (5 C, 5 P) Surnames of Swaziland origin (1 P) Surnames of Tunisian origin (10 P) Surnames of West African origin (5 C, 3 P) Swahili-language surnames (4 P) T Surnames of Tanzania (1 P) Y Yoruba-language surnames (103 P) Z Zambian surnames (33 P) Zimbabwean surnames (12 P) Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. [225] The migrant labour system was identified as a primary cause of the unrest. Lwando Southern African. This name was adopted in the 17th century by Wesselius Praetorius as a Latin translation of his previous surname Schulte. Information on our advertising guidelines can be found. The reinforcements arrived in Durban 20 days later; the siege was broken and the Voortrekkers retreated. Many urban blacks supported the war expecting it would raise their status in society. In 1854, the British handed over the territory to the Boers through the signing of the Sand River Convention. The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. The colony, with an estimated population of less than 400,000 in 1904[56] ceased to exist in 1910, when it was absorbed into the Union of South Africa as the Orange Free State Province. Eventually, in the 1830s, large numbers of Boers migrated in what came to be known as the Great Trek. During the administration of President Jacob Zuma corruption in South Africa had also become a growing problem. [190] However, the South African military had lost air superiority and its technological advantage, largely due to an international arms embargo against the country. Hetherington, Penelope. [127], Dissatisfaction with British influence in the Union's affairs reached a climax in September 1914, when impoverished Boers, anti-British Boers and bitter-enders launched a rebellion. [142] A number of South African fighter pilots served with distinction in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, including Group Captain Adolph "Sailor" Malan who led 74 Squadron and established a record of personally destroying 27 enemy aircraft. [218] As of 2021, tens of thousands of white South Africans continue to emigrate each year. [251] As of 18 July, over 3,400 people had been arrested, while as of 22 July, 337 people had died in connection with the unrest.[252]. Racial segregation and white minority rule known officially as apartheid, an Afrikaans word meaning "separateness", was implemented in 1948. Popular South African Surnames and Meanings Abara - This surname is of Igbo origin and it means "spirit." Adebisi - The meaning of this last name is "the king" and it is of Yoruba origin. [134] The South African government issued no war service medal to the black servicemen and the special medal issued by King George V to "native troops" that served the Empire, the British War Medal in bronze, was disallowed and not issued to the SANLC. Pronounce it KAH-yah. The attack failed, with British forces then retreating back to Durban, which the Boers besieged. Since then, the African National Congress has governed South Africa, in an alliance with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. [65], By 1893, when the lawyer and social activist Mahatma Gandhi arrived in Durban, Indians outnumbered whites in Natal. The Ibibio name Akpan means firstborn son. It caused the consolidation of groups such as the Matebele, the Mfengu and the Makololo. [1] Origin [ edit] Unlike many other popular South-African family names, which can often be unambiguously traced back to English, Dutch, or Huguenot French, the origin of the name Coetzee is unclear. Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Da Gama gave the name Natal to the coast he was passing, which in Portuguese means Christmas. 31. Most of the deaths occurred between 1992 and 1993, after South African and Cuban involvement had ended. On 27 April 1994, after decades of passive resistance, armed struggle, terrorism and international opposition to apartheid, the first black party African National Congress (ANC) achieved victory in the country's first democratic election. A series of battles ensued, in which Mzilikazi was eventually defeated. Great Britain. Blignaut, Charl. Leaders of the Communist Party of South Africa were mostly white. The British, who at that time controlled the area between the Orange and Vaal Rivers called the Orange River Sovereignty, decided a discernible boundary was necessary and proclaimed a line named the Warden Line, dividing the area between British and Basotho territories. Cuba had initially provided the MPLA with 230 military advisers prior to the South African intervention. Afrikaner settlers in particular were loath to live under Moshoesoe's authority and among Africans.[84]. [92], During the final campaign, Sekukuni (also spelled Sekhukhune) and members of his entourage took refuge in a mountain cave where he was cut off from food and water. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the South African surname lived. [161] Apartheid South Africa reacted to the UN arms embargo by strengthening its military ties with Israel, and establishing its own arms manufacturing industry with the help of Israel. Amani (Ethiopian origin) means "faith". Lerato (Southern African origin), meaning "love" in Sotho, pronounced LE-raa-too. Under the provisions of the act, the Union became an independent Dominion of the British Empire, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch represented by a Governor-General. Germany's Ludwig Loewe company, later known as Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionfabriken, delivered 55,000 of these rifles to the Boers in 1896. Hamilton, Carolyn and Bernard K. Mbenga, eds. [203], Hundreds of students and others who fled to neighbouring countries, especially Botswana, to avoid arrest after the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976, provided a fertile recruiting ground for the military wings of both the ANC and PAC. [3], European exploration of the African coast began in the 13th century when Portugal committed itself to discover an alternative route to the silk road that would lead to China. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. The July 2021 unrest coincided with the Cape Town taxi conflict[253] and Transnet ransomware attack[254][255] leading to unproven speculation that they might have been connected. The survivors were captured and allegedly enslaved. This act augmented the Native Land Act of 1913 through the establishment of so-called "homelands" or "reserves". The president is elected by the National Assembly and serves a term that expires at the next general election. [93], The first diamond discoveries between 1866 and 1867 were alluvial, on the southern banks of the Orange River. Independent sovereignty of the republic was formally recognised by Great Britain with the signing of the Sand River Convention on 17 January 1852. In 1828 Shaka was killed by his half-brothers Dingaan and Umhlangana. "[201], The national liberation movement was divided in the early 1960s when an "Africanist" faction within the ANC objected to an alliance between the ANC and the Communist Party of South Africa. [88] War broke out again in 1865. It was inhabited by Australopithecines since at least 2.5 million years ago. There are 3,000 census records available for the last name South African. The South African Institute of Race Relations estimated in 2008 that 800,000 or more white people had emigrated since 1995, out of the approximately 4,000,000 who were in South Africa when apartheid formally ended the year before. Mannan: Mannan is a Hindu surname meaning 'king' in Tamil. Sotho-speakers know this period as the difaqane ("forced migration"); Zulu-speakers call it the mfecane ("crushing"). In early South Africa, European notions of national boundaries and land ownership had no counterparts in African political culture. The name is derived from the dutch word Prins (meaning prince), and a loo suffix meaning clearing in the forest. By 16 December, the fleet had passed the Great Fish River on the east coast of South Africa, where Dias had earlier turned back. An estimated five thousand Zulu warriors were involved. Long-standing Boer resentment turned into full-blown rebellion in the Transvaal and the first AngloBoer War, also known as the Boer Insurrection, broke out in 1880. The settlers, incorrectly, believed that the Cape Colony administration had taken the money due to them as payment for freeing their slaves. This Second AngloBoer War, also known as the South African War lasted longer than the first, with British troops being supplemented by colonial troops from Southern Rhodesia, Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand. It means "leaves" (verb) in Swahili. The descendants of unions between the Dutch settlers and the Khoi-San and Malay slaves became known officially as the Cape Coloureds and the Cape Malays, respectively. Many of the 1820 Settlers eventually settled in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. [24] Others, now known as the SothoTswana peoples (Tswana, Pedi, and Sotho), settled in the interior on the plateau known as the Highveld,[24] while today's Venda, Lemba, and Tsonga peoples made their homes in the north-eastern areas of present-day South Africa. [77][78] To European settlers in Southern Africa, the same form of tribute was believed to constitute purchase and permanent ownership of the land under independent authority. By 1952, the brief flame of mass-based white radicalism was extinguished, when the Torch Commando disbanded due to government legislation under the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950. After considerable debate, and following submissions from advocacy groups, individuals and ordinary citizens, the Parliament enacted a new Constitution and Bill of Rights in 1996. The United Nations Security Council on 6 May 1978 condemned South Africa for the attack. Last names come from indigenous, colonialist, and diasporic roots. Abara (Igbo origin) meaning "spirit". In the eastern part of what is today South Africa, in the region named Natalia by the Boer trekkers, the latter negotiated an agreement with Zulu King Dingane kaSenzangakhona allowing the Boers to settle in part of the then Zulu kingdom. [74], Although no formally surveyed boundaries existed, Griqua leader Nicolaas Waterboer claimed the diamond fields were situated on land belonging to the Griquas. Smith's expansion of the Cape Colony resulted in conflict with disaffected Boers in the Orange River Sovereignty who in 1848 mounted an abortive rebellion at Boomplaats, where the Boers were defeated by a detachment of the Cape Mounted Rifles. Following the defeat of the Boers in the AngloBoer or South African War (18991902), the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Colony of Natal, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. [36] This had the effect of forcing more of the Dutch colonists to move (or trek) away from British administrative reach. The British suffragette Emily Hobhouse visited British concentration camps in South Africa and produced a report condemning the appalling conditions there. Afumba (Zambian origin) meaning "when they plan". Britain, due to the military burden imposed on it by the Crimean War in Europe, then withdrew its troops from the territory in 1854, when the territory along with other areas in the region was claimed by the Boers as an independent Boer republic, which they named the Orange Free State. [212] Griqualand then became a separate Crown Colony renamed Griqualand West in 1871, with a Lieutenant-General and legislative council. In 1872, after a long political struggle, it attained responsible government with a locally accountable executive and Prime Minister. It is likely that around 50% of white men of military age served during the war, more than 146,000 whites. [citation needed] For more parenting tips and tricks, find us on Pinterest: Are you a writer, expert, or influencer? The flag of Republic of South Africa was adopted on 26 April 1994. The country would only be readmitted to the UN in 1994 following its transition to democracy. The ANC had risen to power on the strength of a socialist agenda embodied in a Freedom Charter, which was intended to form the basis of ANC social, economic and political policies. The small initial group of free burghers, as these farmers were known, steadily increased in number and began to expand their farms further north and east into the territory of the Khoikhoi. [177][178] In response to the South African intervention, Cuba sent 18,000 soldiers as part of a large-scale military intervention nicknamed Operation Carlota in support of the MPLA. The Cape and the VOC had to import Dutch farmers to establish farms to supply the passing ships as well as to supply the growing VOC settlement. [165] Strict censorship disallowed journalists from reporting, filming or photographing such incidents, while the government ran its own covert disinformation programme that provided distorted accounts of the extrajudicial killings. Over several hundred years, borders have been made, changed and broken, making family history difficult to trace. Providing important rest and refuelling stations, the Royal Navy could ensure vital sea lane connections to the British Raj, and the Far East stayed open. Aguer (South Sudanese origin) means "tree". [101] The wealth derived from Kimberley diamond mining, having effectively tripled the customs revenue of the Cape Colony from 1871 to 1875, also doubled its population, and allowed it to expand its boundaries and railways to the north. [72] East Griqualand was subsequently annexed by Britain in 1874 and incorporated into the Cape Colony in 1879. Following in Dart's footsteps Robert Broom discovered a new much more robust hominid in 1938 Paranthropus robustus at Kromdraai, and in 1947 uncovered several more examples of Australopithecus africanus at Sterkfontein. President Kruger suspected the insurgency had received at least the tacit approval of the Cape Colony government under the premiership of Cecil John Rhodes, and that Kruger's South African Republic faced imminent danger. [24], The British explorers David Livingstone and William Oswell, setting out from a mission station in the northern Cape Colony, are believed to have been the first white men to cross the Kalahari desert in 1849. [222] The debt was finally settled in September 2001. [139][140], About 334,000 South Africans volunteered for full-time military service in support of the Allies abroad. [191] South African involvement in Angola ended formally after the signing of a United Nations-brokered agreement known as the New York Accords between the governments of Angola, Cuba and South Africa, resulting in the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Angola and also South Africa's withdrawal from South West Africa (now Namibia), which the UN regarded as illegally occupied since 1966. Their South African National Party, later known as the South African Party or SAP, followed a generally pro-British, white-unity line. 35. A Adriaanse Alberts (name) B Badenhorst Bakkes Bekker Blaauw Blignault Blignaut Booi Booysen Boshoff Bosman Botha Breytenbach Burger (surname) Buys C Cilliers Cloete (surname) Coetzee Cronje 32. The Griqua community became subsequently dissimulated. This facilitated purchases of munitions and food in the United States and neutral countries. [159], On 16 December 1966, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2202 A (XXI) identified apartheid as a "crime against humanity". [184] A controversial bombing and airborne assault conducted by 200 South African paratroopers on 4 May 1978 at Cassinga in southern Angola, resulted in around 700 South West Africans being killed, including PLAN militants and a large number of women and children. Another reason for Dutch-speaking white farmers trekking away from the Cape was the abolition of slavery by the British government on Emancipation Day, 1 December 1838. Johnson: This surname is a patronymic of John. However, an ill-informed British attempt to force the states of southern Africa into a British federation led to inter-ethnic tensions and the First Boer War. Manpower, from all races, helped Allied operations not just on the Western Front and Africa, but also in the Middle East against the Ottoman Empire. Means "nation" in Xhosa. Friction between the Griquas and the settlers over land rights resulted in British troops being sent to the region in 1845. A president may serve a maximum of two terms. Finding and extracting the deposits far below the ground called for the capital and engineering skills that would soon result in the deep-level mines of the Witwatersrand producing a quarter of the world's gold, with the "instant city" of Johannesburg arising astride the main Witwatersrand gold reef. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late-1980s meant the African National Congress (ANC) in alliance with the South African Communist Party, could no longer depend on the Soviet Union for weaponry and political support. By 1987, total military expenditure amounted to about 28% of the national budget. A movement known as the Torch Commando was formed in the 1950s, led by white war veterans who had fought fascism in Europe and North Africa during World War II, only to find fascism on the rise in South Africa when they returned home. "[185] The Angolan government described the target of the attack as a refugee camp. Find your family's origin in the United States, average life expectancy, most common occupation, and more. 28. 83,000 Blacks and 2,500 Coloureds and Asians also served in either German South-West Africa, East Africa, the Middle East, or on the Western Front in Europe. [211] As the culmination of mounting local and international opposition to apartheid in the 1980s, including the armed struggle, widespread civil unrest, economic and cultural sanctions by the international community, and pressure from the anti-apartheid movement around the world, State President F. W. de Klerk announced the lifting of the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela on 2 February 1990, after twenty-seven years in prison. [75] The Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State also vied for ownership of the land, but Britain, being the preeminent force in the region, won control over the disputed territory. In 1993, attacks on white civilian targets in public places increased. [153] The AWB leader Eugne Terre'Blanche was murdered by farm workers on 3 April 2010. [162] Four hundred M-113A1 armoured personnel carriers, and 106mm recoilless rifles manufactured in the United States were delivered to South Africa via Israel. [239] The government owned power utility Eskom has been plagued with corruption and mismanagement, most notability during the presidency of Jacob Zuma, which has limited its ability to resolve the crisis. [228] The slow pace of transformation also fomented tensions within the tripartite alliance between the ANC, the Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.[229]. Van der Merwe is a common Afrikaans surname, derived from the Dutch van der Merwen ("from the Merwede"). [9], Many more species of early hominid have come to light in recent decades. [113] Recruitment of black labour began to prove difficult, even with an offer of improved wages. The war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, including an overwhelming victory by the Zulu at the Battle of Isandlwana, as well as for being a landmark in the timeline of imperialism in the region. When he did not pay the fine in full, a battle broke out on the Berea Plateau in 1852, where the British suffered heavy losses. Kruger reacted by forming an alliance with the neighbouring Boer republic of Orange Free State. The effectiveness of the police in foiling the planned coup strengthened public perceptions that the post-1994 democratic order was irreversible. [64], Over the next 50 years, 150,000 more indentured Indian servants and labourers arrived, as well as numerous free "passenger Indians," building the base for what would become the largest Indian diasporic community outside India. 2. Whereas the San were hunter-gatherers, the Khoikhoi were pastoral herders. Prinsloo is an Afrikaans surname. The independent Boer republic of Orange Free State evolved from colonial Britain's Orange River Sovereignty, enforced by the presence of British troops, which lasted from 1848 to 1854 in the territory between the Orange and Vaal rivers, named Transorange. The South African Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB (meaning Afrikaner Resistance Movement), a militant neo-Nazi, mainly Afrikaner white supremacist movement that arose in the 1970s, and was active until the mid-1990s, openly used a flag that closely resembled the swastika. [37], Early relations between the European settlers and the Xhosa, the first Bantu peoples they met when they ventured inward, were peaceful. The establishment of the staging post by the Dutch East India Company at the Cape in 1652 soon brought the Khoikhoi into conflict with Dutch settlers over land ownership. The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. The British elements strongly supported the war, and formed by far the largest military component. About three thousand Zulu warriors died in the clash known historically as the Battle of Blood River.[81][82]. [189], Both South Africa and Cuba claimed victory at the decisive battle of Cuito Cuanavale, which have been described as "the fiercest in Africa since World War II". There is also a Jat tribe with the same name. The more radical Boers split away under the leadership of General Barry Hertzog, forming the National Party (NP) in 1914. [52], The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR, not to be confused with the much later Republic of South Africa), is often referred to as The Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal. On 23 October 1984 the UN Security Council endorsed this formal determination. This aim was complicated by border conflicts with the Boers, who soon developed a distaste for British authority. The Kingdom of Mapungubwe, which was located near the northern border of present-day South Africa, at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers adjacent to present-day Zimbabwe and Botswana, was the first indigenous kingdom in southern Africa between AD 900 and 1300. In the 14th and 15th century, Portuguese explorers traveled down the west African Coast, detailing and mapping the coastline and in 1488 they rounded the Cape of Good Hope. As European settlers started establishing permanent farms after trekking across the country in search of prime agricultural land, they encountered resistance from the local Bantu people who had originally migrated southwards from central Africa hundreds of years earlier. [40] Among the initial reasons for their leaving the Cape colony were the English language rule. On 10 May 1994 Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's new President in Pretoria with Thabo Mbeki and F. W. De Klerk as his vice-presidents. From 19481994, South African politics was dominated by Afrikaner nationalism. Abebe - Origin: Ethiopian. Multi-national mining corporations including Anglo-American Corporation, Lonmin, and Anglo Platinum, were accused of failing to address the enduring legacies of apartheid. The name is pronounced Col-u-WHA. 78. The Cape was relinquished back to the Dutch in 1803. Many blacks adopted the surname of Freeman after emancipation in 1863. Kholwa Female | Kholwa is a name used in both the Zulu and Ndebele cultures and means "believe". Abebe (Amharic origin) meaning "flower". The British then seized the Cape in 1795 to prevent it from falling into French hands. Pages in category "Afrikaans-language surnames" The following 148 pages are in this category, out of 148 total. A given name may consist of only one name (the first name) or multiple names, in which case subsequent names are referred to as middle names. A majority of politically moderate Afrikaners were pragmatic and did not support the AWB's extremism. [30] Simon van der Stel, the first Governor of the Dutch settlement, famous for his development of the lucrative South African wine industry, was himself of mixed race-origin. Introduction: South Africa has a unique history of apartheid that has had significant implications on economic and social policies. South Africa's prehistory has been divided into two phases based on broad patterns of technology namely the Stone Age and Iron Age.After the discovery of hominins at Taung and australopithecine fossils in limestone caves at Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai these areas were collectively . [194][195][196], Organised resistance to Afrikaner nationalism was not confined exclusively to activists of the oppressed, dark-skinned population. Male | Jabulani, a Zulu name often shortened to Jabu, means "rejoice" and is pronounced Jah-boo-LAH-nee. [109] In 1895 there was an investment boom in Witwatersrand gold-mining shares. British colonisation, Mfecane and Boer Republics (18151910), Area Study South Africa, US Library of Congress. [160] 21,000 of them were deployed to France as stevedores at French ports, where they were housed in segregated compounds. The commission charged by agents was the same as the payment for one slave, thus those settlers only claiming for one slave would receive nothing. Tau was the name of the last ruler of the Rolong in South Africa (18th century). [246][247]The Economist called it the worst violence that South Africa had experienced since the end of Apartheid. Colin Newbury, "Technology, Capital, and Consolidation: The Performance of De Beers Mining Company Limited, 18801889". [105][106], Although many tales abound, there is no conclusive evidence as to who first discovered gold or the manner in which it was originally discovered in the late 19th century on the Witwatersrand (meaning White Waters Ridge) of the Transvaal. 4. Under the post-apartheid Constitution the president is head of both state and government. [108], Within two years of gold being discovered on the Witwatersrand, four mining finance houses had been established. 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