大约从十七世纪中期直到二十世纪,南非居民方渐趋于成型。在这块次大陆的历史上发生过深刻影响的一系列新的重要因素,对南非居民的变化形成产生了巨大作用。其中最重要的因素有:欧洲人殖民;姆菲堪之乱(Mfecane);大迁徒(Great Trek);奴隶与契约劳工;十九世纪末期经济变化引起的城市化进程。这些因素单独、有时共同发挥 From about the mid-seventeenth century until the twentieth century, residents of South Africa tended to shape themselves. A series of new important factors that have had a profound impact on the history of this subcontinent have played a significant role in the formation of South African residents. The most important of these are: European colonization; Mfecane; Great Trek; slavery and contract labor; urbanization caused by the economic changes of the late nineteenth century. These factors alone, sometimes together