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a. thermal power
Because it use heat energy
I would say that one assumption is the superiority of Europeans over Africans: their belief that somehow they had the right to enslave other people.
This could be connected to their racism (they thought the same of native Americans and there was a discussion whether native Americans have souls) or religious feeling of superiority ("pagans are not the same as Christians"...)
the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies
Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War and after four years of negotiation, an act of the British Parliament (South Africa Act 1909) granted nominal independence, while creating the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910