Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg was born on 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden, Friesland in the Netherlands. He came to the Cape as an employee of the Dutch East India Company (DEIC). In 1767 he became “Independent-Fiscal”, the highest official of justice at the Cape. He became governor of the Cape after the death of Governor Ryk Tulbagh in 1771.
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8 March 1739
Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands
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How we know this
- 01Potgieter, J. (ed0 (1973. Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Vol. VIII, Pretoria: HSRC, pp.617-8.
- 02Plettenberg Bay,"History ,From: Plettenberg Bay, [Online] Available at: www.plettenbergbay.co.za [Accessed on 1 march 2012]
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