First formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been … Jan van Riebeeck for the slave children brought to the Cape in the Dutch ship, the Amersfoort, which had captured … to learn: the struggle for education in South Africa, Cape Town: SACHED Trust, p. 32.| Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) …