“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 refugee.

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 conflict and discord, between blacks and whites in this country, is frequently said to have started with Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival at the Cape. Were our cultures really all that different? Have ...

Jan van Riebeeck (hereinafter referred to as Jan) thought, for a moment of shouting, then realised he wasn’t English. ‘My – name– is – Jan – van – Riebeeck,’ he said slo-o-o-owly. For the sake of ...

So, if I were to write a letter to Van Riebeeck, what would I say? First, I need to get his image right in my mind – it’s not the one we had on our banknotes.

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 ...

South Africa’s enduring legacy of exclusion started with Jan van Riebeeck, says Zubeida Jaffer.

Opinion - Jan Van Riebeeck arrived in South Africa in 1652. Who of my generation does not know this? It was drilled into all our minds at primary school. And even if we were not lucky enough to go ...

366 Years ago Jan van Riebeeck docked at the Cape of Good Hope and changed the course of South African history.

Afrikaaner groups have petitioned the King of the Netherlands to step in and save the Jan van Riebeeck statue in Cape Town. This came after a perceived “credible threat” to the statue ...

A praise singer told the crowd he needed to exorcise the spirit of Dutch coloniser Jan van Riebeeck before the rally could get underway.