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The Dutch Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, from where it derived its name. The original colony and the successive states that the colony was incorporated into occupied much of modern South Africa .
Netherlands–South Africa refers to the current and historical relations between the Netherlands and South Africa.Both nations share historic ties and have a long-standing special relationship, partly due to the Dutch colony in the Cape, linguistic similarity between Dutch and Afrikaans and the Netherlands' staunch support in the struggle against Apartheid.
Painting of an account of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, by Charles Bell. While the new settlement traded out of necessity with the neighbouring Khoikhoi, relations between them were strained, and the Dutch authorities attempted to restrict contact. Partly as a consequence, VOC employees found themselves faced with a labour shortage.
The introduction of Free Burghers to the Dutch Cape Colony is regarded as the beginning of a permanent settlement of Europeans in South Africa. [1] The Free Burgher population eventually devolved into two distinct segments separated by social status, wealth, and education: the Cape Dutch and the Boers. [2]
To avoid collision with the bantu tribes advancing south and west from east central Africa, the Dutch agreed in 1780 to make the Great Fish River the boundary of the colony. In 1795 the heavily taxed boers of the frontier districts, who received no protection against the Africans, expelled the officials of the Dutch East India Company, and ...
The Dutch colonized the southwestern part of South Africa in 1652 through the Dutch East India trading company. They controlled the Dutch Cape Colony for more than 150 years before British occupation.
Map of the Cape of Good Hope in 1885 (blue). The areas of Griqualand West and Griqualand East were annexed to the Cape Colony around 1880. The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.
From this time on, Cape Colony ceased to be the only European community in South Africa, though it was the most predominant for many years. Considerable trouble was caused by the emigrant Boers on either side of the Orange River, where the Boers, the Basothos , other native tribes, Bushmen, and Griquas fought for superiority, while the Cape ...
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