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ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… world as the Dutch East India Company or simply the VOC. The executive directorate of the VOC was called the Heeren Sewentien or the "Lords Seventeen". … had…
BiographyVos Patrick Mazibuko
BiographyDoc Bikitsha
Basil Sipho Neo Bridgeman Bikitsha, known as “Doc” Bikitsha, was born on 19 November 1930 at the Bridgman Memorial Hospital in Mayfair, Johannesburg. After…
Vos Patrick Mazibuko
EventNo time to wash at The VOC Slave Lodge
… Good Hope, about the conditions of enslaved people at the VOC Company Slave Lodge in Cape Town. He stated with grave … No time to wash at The VOC Slave Lodge…
The VOC hospital in Cape Town
… The VOC hospital in Cape Town …
BiographyJan Smiesing
… Voorhout and the Jambij, all of whom were enslaved at the VOC Slave Lodge. Three were described as being … the Slave Lodge school or to learn trades…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established as a trading company in 1602, with the … Leendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… the first Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Mauritius. [1] His mother Maria was the daughter of … Johanna Jacoba Six. Johanna was the…
BiographyJan van Riebeeck
… (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie - also referred to as VOC) in 1639 where he began as an assistant surgeon on a … . Jan van Riebeeck arrives in Table Bay…
BiographyDan Sleigh
… East India Company/Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) archives into a world wide database. Due to his … of conservation and cultural organisations such…
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… at the house of Commander Zacharias Wagenaer. The Company (VOC), which favoured total cultural assimilation for …
BiographyAnna De Koningh
… set free and given the option of returning to his former VOC rank and serving the company elsewhere, or remaining in …
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia by Robert Parthesius
… Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595-1660 … Waters: The development of the Dutch East India Company …
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… the first four years of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) settlement at the Cape only a small number of personal … had begun writing letters to the Heeren…
PlaceVoices of Women Museum, Durban
This fascinating, living archival Museum holds within its walls some 3 000 embroidered cloths and personal stories from women who have lived around South…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… India Company or the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) in 1652 as a refreshment outpost. The outpost was intended to supply VOC ships on their way to…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… The formation of the VOC in Netherlands in 1602 increased Dutch dominance of the … trade outposts in the Dutch East Indies. In 1651 the VOC issued…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) or Dutch East India Company came into being on 20 March … images/jan.jpg Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of…
ArchiveAfrican Women's Voices
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… raiding and other forms of brigandage by Trek Boers, the VOC imposes a temporary ban on free trading with the … of complaint, which is addressed to the…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
Daniel William Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… and sister in-law Cornelia Six. He soon takes up post of VOC Commander of the Cape. Van der Stel authorises expansion … to quarters at the Castle in May. 16…