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… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, …

… XVII (Lords Seventeen) of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Simond was stationed at Drakenstein, where he was given …

… India Company - the Vereenigde Oost-Indisch Compagnie (VOC) - sailed into Table Bay. The young commander, Jan van … of Jan van Riebeeck. Cape Town, Balkema, 1952, p.31. The VOC needed cattle. Initially, they bartered for them and for … slaves in the colony. In the same year the rulers of the VOC in the Netherlands questioned whether slavery should …

… van Riebeeck, an employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Arrived at the Cape in 1652, to set up a Refreshment …

… The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but … Ocean basin, since that was the trading domain of the VOC. The Dutch usually captured slaves, who came from West … of interest to note that many sailors who worked for the VOC had many of their rights also curtailed when they …

… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free Burghers, …

… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number …

… colonial settlers. In 1652, the Dutch East India Company (VOC)  founded a refreshment outpost at the Cape. By the 1670s, the VOC decided to establish a permanent settlement at Cape Town …

… sea route to the East, and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a refreshment post in Table Bay (present day … Free Burghers, had been granted rights to land by the VOC management (1652-1795), and began farming to generate …

… When the Dutch first settled at the Cape in 1652 , the VoC limited the colonist's freedom of worship to the Dutch …