Which of the following is a true statement about South Africa?
A. European mistreatment of Africans resulted in hundreds of years of conflict and violence.
B. Until the 1500s, the Boers occupied much of the eastern regions of southern Africa.
C. In 1652, the British East India Company created a settlement on the Cape of Good Hope.
D. By 1795, the Netherlands seized the Cape Colony, and by 1815 it was completely under Dutch control.