Dutchman Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape Horn of South Africa in 1652. He brought a dog with him to protect his family in the wild, unfamiliar, and unforgiving new territory.

The Historical Origins of Land Dispossession The arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 marked the beginning of European colonial settlement in South Africa. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) ...

Background reading The road to Mr. Trump’s embrace of white South Africans. White South Africans granted refugee status by Mr. Trump arrived in the U.S. last week. There are a lot of ways to ...

In the dry landscape of South Africa’s Karoo region, there is a town that operates differently from the rest of the country, boasting its own public holidays and even its own currency. The ...

JAN VAN RIEBEECK, sea captain, merchant and surgeon, founded a Dutch trading station and post office on the tip of the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Table Bay had long been a port of call for the intr ...

The arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 marked the beginning of European colonial settlement in South Africa. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a refreshment station at the Cape, forcibly ...

The late Duimpie Bayly used to often joke that when Jan van Riebeeck arrived in South Africa in 1652, Dave Hughes was already here to greet him.

Jan van Riebeeck was then commissioned to establish the settlement as the first governor at the Cape from 1652. Daily journal entries were written by trained scribes in a relatively informal style.

Not as long as the disaster that started when Jan van Riebeeck stopped to pick up water in Cape Town this week 370 years ago (on 6 April 1652) — we’re still dealing with that one today — but ...

The focus of the commemoration will rather be on the "long road travelled since Van Riebeeck's arrival on April 6, 1652" and everyone who has since arrived at the Cape of Storms. Patrick McKenzie, ...