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… Dutch East India Company (known by the Dutch abbreviation VOC) was established in 1602 to conduct Dutch trade with the … the Khoikhoi to use the guns against them. In 1652, the VOC decided to establish a permanent refreshment station at … Cochoqua chief, Gonnema, who refused to trade with the VOC. The Company used rival Khoikhoi clans to raid the …

… of Cape Town. From within the walls of the Castle, the VOC administered and governed the expanding colony. At first, … as much as three to one. Another source of slaves was the VOC’s return fleets from Batavia and other places in the east which sailed around the Cape on their way to Europe. VOC officials could not take their slaves with them when they …

… Commissioner-Generals of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and were sent to assist dissatisfied free burghers, or farmers who had been given land independent of the VOC, on how to better earn a living. However, the VOC had a monopoly over trade and industry in the Cape, which …

… of labour, especially on the wheat and wine farms. But the VOC did not want to spend its money on the expensive wages that European labourers demanded. Nor could the VOC use the Khoi people as slaves. The Khoi traded with the … Cape Malays). Initially, all slaves were owned by the VOC, but later farmers themselves could own slaves too. …

… Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States … Jan van Riebeeck, who is subsequently appointed by the VOC to establish the trading and refreshment station, … with the Khoikhoi. Van Riebeeck immediately requests the VOC to supply him with slaves imported from Asia to do the …