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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States … Jan van Riebeeck, who is subsequently appointed by…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… a constant supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat for VOC ships. When the company allocated land to company … of slave labour. Van Riebeeck was…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… had signed a contract with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to oversee the setting up of a refreshment station to … a recommendation on the suitability of…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… Company started a refreshment station at the Cape for its VOC shipping fleet on their way to East and/or on their … law. 1754 The governor, Tulbagh,…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… 1602 20 March, The Dutch East India Company (VOC) comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC),…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… the service post set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at the Cape of Good Hope. Expansion of the Cape Colony … 1795 the Cape was won by British…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… arrival of the Amersfoort , the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Commissioner Rijckloff van Goens visited the Cape and … Almost all of these early slaves…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Slaves brought in by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the Cape also fought directly and indirectly to …
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… eventually got back to Holland they gave the DEIC or VOC (Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie) wonderful reports … of water, fertile land and lots of wild…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… Dutch East India Company (known by the Dutch abbreviation VOC) was established in 1602 to conduct Dutch trade with the … the Khoikhoi to use the guns against…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… of Cape Town. From within the walls of the Castle, the VOC administered and governed the expanding colony. At first, … as much as three to one. Another…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… of labour, especially on the wheat and wine farms. But the VOC did not want to spend its money on the expensive wages that European labourers demanded. Nor…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States … Jan van Riebeeck, who is subsequently appointed by…
ArticleThe Johanna
… instruction of Olaf Bergh, a Dutch East India Company (VOC) employee, to collect what they could once the weather had calmed. The VOC started as a merchant…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established Cape Town as a refuelling station in 1652 …
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… Nieuwe Haerlem and Schiedam, two Dutch East India Company (VOC) ships, left Batavia for Holland on 22 December 1646. The … near Table Bay on 22 March 1647,…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… a commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to establish a refreshment station for passing ships. … response to the colonists’ growing…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… had already become during the 143-year tenure there of the VOC. The Maskew brothers, newly arrived at the Cape, married … descendents of a 17th-century…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… of exclusion. One of the earliest proposals by the VOC of creating a barrier between the Khoikhoi and the Dutch … Khoikhoi and preventing their cattle from…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed intermittently for…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… migration into the interior. Three decisions by the VOC (Dutch East India Company) altered the course of history …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… “Corruption and Mismanagement in the Times of the VOC”, Indonesia Expat, (Uploaded: 6 December 2017), … Dutch East India Company (known by the Dutch…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… Africa remained largely untouched. This changed after the VOC established their presence at the Cape. Dutch settlers at … to produce enough food to meet the…