In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck, commander of the first wave of Dutch settlers, built Fort de Goede Hoop upon arrival in the Cape. However, Dutch settlers built the fort with just clay and timber, so plans ...

Delve into the legacy of apartheid's pass laws and their implications for contemporary South Africa, highlighting key historical events and figures.

Experience Cape Town's journey from Dutch trading hub to modern democracy on an insightful day tour with a local historian.

The town was opened to Western settlement in 1661, when an expedition sent from Cape Town by Jan van Riebeeck, founder of the Cape colony, crested the pass and looked down on this verdant valley.

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Reservoirs of water and wood When Zacharias Wagenaer replaced Van Riebeeck as the Dutch governor in 1663, he built a rectangular masonry reservoir, about one-third the size of an Olympic swimming pool ...

Pietie Beyers education Pietie matriculated from Jan van Riebeeck high school in 2006. He then attended The University of Stellenbosch, where he graduated with an Honours degree in Drama in 2012.

Similarly, without being prescriptive, consideration could be given to moving the statue of Paul Kruger to the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and that of Jan van Riebeeck to the Castle of Good ...

The Castle of Good Hope Built between 1966 and 1679 by Jan van Riebeeck and the Dutch East India Company, the Castle of Good Hope is the oldest building in South Africa and has been at the centre ...

The remains of van Riebeeck’s fort are buried beneath the nearby Golden Acre shopping centre, although some remnants of the reservoir built by his immediate successor, Zacharias Wagenaer, are on ...

Van Riebeeck set up a Cape refreshment station for ships to the East Indies but the new settlement crossed traditional Khoikhoi grazing routes.