Jan van Riebeeck
… 1619 in Culemborg, Netherlands to a surgeon. He spent his youth in Schiedam, Netherlands where, on 28 March 1649, … from the post, when he was found to be conducting trade in his personal capacity, defying the ban on private trading. … prominently displayed on banknotes and stamps during the Apartheid era, and statues of both him and his wife can be …