Activity 9 : Recall information about free burghers

Question

Use Source M and what you have read to answer all the questions below.

1. Why did Van Riebeeck allow some people to become free burghers?

2. Why can the establishment of free burgher farmers be seen as the beginning of a colony

3. How did the khoikhoi feel about the new free burgher farms

4. When the Dutch said to the Khoikhoi 'there [is] enough room for grazing their animals ; did this turn out to be true?

5. How did the three burghers farms affect the khoikhoi's way of life

Answer all questions in 13 to 14 words

Answer 1

1. Van Riebeeck allowed free burghers to promote agriculture and increase settlement stability.

2. Free burgher farmers marked permanent settlement and agricultural development, establishing a colony presence.

3. The Khoikhoi felt threatened and marginalized by the expanding free burgher farms.

4. No, there was not enough grazing land, leading to conflicts over resources.

5. The burghers' farms disrupted Khoikhoi livelihoods, limiting their grazing areas and resources.