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 ...

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 ...

366 years ago, Jan van Riebeeck docked at the Cape of Good Hope and changed the course of South African history. Late December 1651, along with his wife and son, van Riebeeck set off from Texel in ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When Jan van Riebeeck first gave a licence to burgher Pieter Visagie to brew beer using the cool, fresh Table Mountain waters of the Liesbeek River in 1658, he could never have imagined that, 357 ...

Denis Beckett has paid his R250 to join the Van Riebeeck Society. Here's why: Last year, Stoep commended an unexpected publication about Russians in the Cape in the 19th century, published by the ...

A jan van Riebeek statue. Picture” Alberton Record. I’m doing some narrative studies, looking at the different “voices” that have made up South Africa’s past.