“The 6th of April 1652, Fighters, is the year the European colonial project began on the southern tip of Africa. ... ‘Jan van Riebeeck did not come here as a tourist or refugee’ ...

With the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 he had specific instructions form the Lords Seventeen (Heeren Sewentien). He had to build a fort for safety but also received strict instructions to ...

'Van Riebeeck is more honest than Dr Mulder' Heritage practitioner and liberation activist Patric Tariq Mellet outlines his views about the history and legacy of Jan van Riebeeck, in response to a ...

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 ...

It is a historical fact that Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Table Bay in the Western Cape on April 6 1652 and found Autshumato and his people.It is also a fact that Van Riebeeck had strict instructions ...

The history of the Cape Colony started on 6 April 1652, when Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Table Bay with his three ships, De Reiger, De Drommedaris and De Goede Hoop.

The problems did start in 1652 with van Riebeeck Comments. Bookmark. Some quick notes (unedited) below, but yes, I was wrong. ... Our president got it quite correct to say that the problems started ...

South Africa’s enduring legacy of exclusion started with Jan van Riebeeck, says Zubeida Jaffer. Wednesday, July 2, 2025. News. ... Jan Van Riebeeck arrived in South Africa in 1652.

Thanks to Jan van Riebeeck's journals, South Africa's oldest known apple is making a comeback. The first governor of the Cape kept a meticulous record of his daily life after landing in 1652.In ...