Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck, was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. It was sculpted in bronze by John Tweed and … explorer who was the first European to reach the Cape of Good Hope in 1487, and Maria van Riebeeck, wife of …