Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands

Date: 8 Mar 1739
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands

Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg was born on 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden, Friesland in the Netherlands. He came to the Cape as an employee of the Dutch East India Company (DEIC). In 1767 he became “Independent-Fiscal”, the highest official of justice at the Cape. He became governor of the Cape after the death of Governor Ryk Tulbagh in 1771.

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01Potgieter, J. (ed0 (1973. Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Vol. VIII, Pretoria: HSRC, pp.617-8.
02Plettenberg Bay,"History ,From: Plettenberg Bay, [Online] Available at: www.plettenbergbay.co.za [Accessed on 1 march 2012]

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