Writing Prompts About the History of South Africa: From the early days of exploration, through years of turmoil and into the modern day, these 10 writing prompts offer a creative opportunity to dive into South African history. Included in this set are writing prompts about Bartolomeu Dias, the Dutch East India Company and Jan van Riebeeck, Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, the Witwatersrand gold fields, the Treaty of Vereeniging, the Bambatha Rebellion, World War I, Nelson Mandela, the Voortrekke