19th Century: (Southern Africa’s Distinctive Experience — White Settlers Not Just Traders, the Temperate Cape, the Tsetse-Free Interior Plateau, and the Thre…

19th Century: (Southern Africa’s Distinctive Experience — White Settlers Not Just Traders, the Temperate Cape, the Tsetse-Free Interior Plateau, and the Three-Cornered Struggle Between British, Boers, and Africans That Would Come to Define the Relationship Between White and Black South of the Limpopo): Nineteenth-century southern Africa had much in common with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean zones — expanding commercial networks linked the region to a global economy and European influence was increasing. Yet southern Africa also had a markedly different experience in that the European presence was not merely commercial. Whites came to the temperate coastal strip around the Cape of Good Hope as settlers, not just traders, and at length they drifted onto the inland plateau — an area of excellent pastureland free of the tsetse fly — where they encountered some of the most dynamic, expansionist African polities anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa. Cooperation as well as conflict resulted, but in time, as foreign colony interacted with local politico-military revolution, it was conflict that came to define the relationship between white and black south of the Limpopo River.