The nation cannot escape racist perceptions Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of the gorgeous city of Cape Town, was pretty forthright about the local black population he found there in 1652 ...

“I did just what Jan van Riebeeck did – he invaded the land; I occupied it,” said Paulsen. And he promised that the party would also target more affluent areas of Cape Town as they continued occupying ...

A jan van Riebeek statue ... gardens and for establishing Cape Town as a viable port en route to and from the East. There is a lot more I could tell Van Riebeeck. Like everyone, I think he ...

It is the beginning of dispossession,” he said. “In that year, Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape, sent by the Dutch East India Company. He did not come as a tourist. He did not come as a ...

The story of Krotoa, a 12-year-old Khoi girl who worked in Dutch colonial leader Jan van Riebeeck’s ... eventually, after Van Riebeeck left the Cape, even the Dutch abandoned her.

“I did just what Jan van Riebeeck did – he invaded the land; I occupied it,” said Paulsen. And he promised that the party would also target more affluent areas of Cape Town as they continued occupying ...