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… ran aground at what was later named Granger Bay and 62 VOC sailors survived there for a year from the available … and their subsequent report may have played a role in the VOC’s decision to establish a supply base at the Cape. The …

… a commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to establish a refreshment station for passing ships. … response to the colonists’ growing demand for labour, the VOC imported slaves from Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, and …

… the Cape in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) until he was sent back to Batavia. …

… had already become during the 143-year tenure there of the VOC. The Maskew brothers, newly arrived at the Cape, married … descendents of a 17th-century Huguenot employee of the VOC. It is this Jacques Therond who was William Fehr’s … Cape Town in November of 1772, by William Hodges. “Several VOC warehouses had stood at the water’s edge, while spires …

… service of the Dutch East India Company (also known as the VOC) founded the Cape settlement in 1652. As it was found … False Bay) was declared the winter anchoring place for the VOC fleet. Other shipping followed suit. Hout Bay was not … in Table Bay to establish a provisioning station for the VOC ships a gathering of the first 'Council of Policy' …

… of exclusion. One of the earliest proposals by the VOC of creating a barrier between the Khoikhoi and the Dutch … Khoikhoi and preventing their cattle from wandering into VOC ‘owned’ land. To this end, palisades were constructed … out of sight of the fort and company settlement. The VOC further inflamed the rising tensions by granting land to …