General South African History Timeline: 1700s
… the advice of Cape Governor W.A. van der Stel, the Dutch colonial administration annuls its policy of forbidding the … the Cape Colony, the Company establishes an administrative post at Ziekenhuys. 1721 March, An attempt to take possession … (Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, …