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… building was originally erected in February 1673 by the Dutch East India Company as a military observation post. …

… below the battery.On 13 September of the same year the Dutch forces at the Cape capitulated. In 1827 the British …

… setting, is widely considered to be one of the finest Cape Dutch houses. It was declared a National Monument under old …

… The dwelling was altered to its present form with Cape Dutch features in 1902, and was declared a National Monument …

… of Gabon, which later became the name of the country. The Dutch began arriving in 1593, and the French in 1630. In …

… unrolled. In the late 1940s the ruling party, dominated by Dutch-descended white Afrikaners, had instituted a national … Women’s Zionist League meets for a monthly discussion. A Dutch Reformed Church minister visits a parishioner at home … talk about anti-Semitism, but not about apartheid. The Dutch Reformed minister probably won’t talk about it either …

… Bains Kloof.  The history of the Mazaars starts with the Dutch invasion of places such as India, Ceylon and Java. … at the Cape. Of noble birth, he lived in exile due to the Dutch occupation of his hometown Macassar, where he had … eventually persuaded to surrender. On a broken promise the Dutch transferred him to the Cape in 1693 and accommodated …

… Garden began in 1652 as a practical food garden for the Dutch East India Company's refreshment station established … collections of South African, African, British, French, Dutch and Flemish artists in the South. …

… of the same year. On 21 October 1899, Kruger boarded the Dutch warship, Die Gelderland, sent by Queen Wilhelmina of …

… old NMC legislation on 9 May 1986. Geldenhys, began the Dutch Reformed Churches orphanage known as; 'Laanglaagte …

… of Hout Bay’s history that goes back to 1652. When the Dutch colony established themselves in Table Bay in 1652, …

… In August 1838 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) at Swellendam established a new …

… for Literature. Coetzee, who has also been involved in Dutch and Afrikaans literature translation, currently lives …

… Mountain was also known to the Boers as 'Logieskop', from Dutch-logies, which means boarding or lodging, as this was …

… Kriel, was attended by a great crowd and took place at the Dutch Reformed Church in Bloemfontein. Steyn, who was not yet …

… replenishment station at the Cape of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building …

… 1639 in Mauritius, the son of Adrian van der Stel, a Dutch East India Company (DEIC) official and Maria Lievens, …

… first river named by Jan van Riebeeck, commander of the Dutch settlement at the Cape. In 1657, shortly after the arrival of Dutch settlers, the Dutch East India Company granted land, along the Liesbeek, to …

… TIRA should uphold rights of pre-war refugees, holders of Dutch certificates and of educated Indians. June 20, Gandhi … the three categories of persons, pre-war refugees, Dutch certificate holders and educated immigrants, prohibited … offer through white mediators conceding re-entry of Dutch certificate holders and right of appeal against the …

… 29 July 1674) became a servant to Jan van Riebeeck, first Dutch commander of the Cape. In Van Riebeeck’s household, Eva … became the first indigenous South African woman fluent in Dutch and Portuguese, and baptised into the Christian faith. … her in good stead to act as an interpreter between the Dutch and Khoi. Yet both groups viewed her with suspicion. In …

… metres. 28 km North-West of Alexandria. The Name means in  Dutch  'alum cliff', and refers to the occurrence of this …

… Nicolaus von Dessin, who bequeathed his books to the Dutch Reformed Church in 1761 to serve as the foundation of a …

… Town and the Witwatersrand and became a missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). In 1936, she began to work with …

… Wars and was a wealthy sheep farmer when, like many other Dutch farmers at the Cape, he decided to leave the colony in …

… inhabitants as well as the conflicts between the Dutch and the British. The mineral revolution led to the …

… own slaves as most of the slave owners were among the Cape Dutch of the Western Cape of whom very few went on the Great … tacit support or understanding of the slave owning Cape Dutch. Who in fact often looked down at the Boers & ridiculed … From: The Great Boer Trek.  The slave owners were the Cape Dutch in the Western Cape most of whom did not go on the …

… gave the mountain range its name (piket meaning outpost in Dutch), and the town was later named after it. First … and was raised to divisional status in 1857. In 1833 the Dutch Reformed Church constituted a parish in the district of …

… In this Area a Laager, that was Built as a refuge for Dutch-speaking farmers during the Anglo-Zulu War, is also …

… Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who worked for the Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of sodomy in …