The oppression in South Africa began with imperialism when Dutch settlers came to southern Africa to conquer the lands of this region in the 17^th century. Over the years they had become known as Afrikaners. Being under British rule in the Cape Colony, the Afrikaners resented them for their laws, such as forbidding slavery. Afrikaners had believed that they were superior to the black Africans and that it was their right, given by God, to own slaves. As a result during the 1880s, Afrikaners, or Boers as the English had called them, moved northeast to establish the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. There they created the decree stating that, “There shall be no equality in State or Church between white and black.” The English had discovered the Afrikaner lands as a great resource for diamonds. This English invasion started the Boer War, which had been won by the English after three years. In 1910, the British brought together the Transvaal and the Orange Free State with Cape Colony and Natal to make the Union of South Africa. After this union, it was very difficult for African blacks and other nonwhites to vote. Justice and equality for the blacks was hard to come by so it had become one of the nation’s greatest issues. The colored people majority made of blacks and Indians formed groups to gain their rights as human beings. They had taken action against the racial discrimination that the white minority had inflicted upon them. In 1912 blacks of South Africa had formed a group by the name of the South African Native National Congress, SANNC. They strived for black rights in their nation. Two years later in 1923 the group had become the African National Congress, ANC.