1652 Van Riebeeck

1652 - Jan van Riebeeck stig 'n verversingspos aan die Kaap

Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (21 April 1619--18 January 1677), was a Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town. He was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam, where he married Maria Cotze on 28 March 1649. (She died in Malacca, now part of Malaysia, on 2 November 1664, at the age of 35). The couple had eight sons, one of whom, Abraham van Riebeeck, would become a Governor-General of Dutch East Indies.

Joining the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1639, he served in a number of posts, including that of an assistant surgeon in the Batavia in the East Indies. He subsequently visited Japan. His most important position was that of head of the VOC trading post in Tonkin, Vietnam. However, he was called back from this post as it was discovered that he was conducting trade for his own account.

In 1651 he was requested to undertake the command of the initial Dutch settlement in the future South Africa. He landed three ships Drommedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop at the future Cape Town on 6 April 1652 and fortified the site as a way-station for the VOC trade route between the Netherlands and the East Indies.

Van Riebeeck was Commander of the Cape from 1652 to 1662; he was charged with building a fort, with improving the natural anchorage at Table Bay, planting fruit and vegetables and obtaining livestock from the indigenous Khoi people. In the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town there is a wild almond hedge still surviving that was planted on his orders as a barrier. The initial fort was made of mud, clay and timber, and had four corners or bastions. This first fort should not be confused with the present-day Cape Town Castle. The Castle, built between 1666 and 1679, several years after Van Riebeeck's departure, has five bastions and is made of brick, stone and cement.

Van Riebeeck reported the first comet discovered from South Africa, C/1652 Y1, which was spotted on December 17, 1652.

He died in Batavia (now renamed Jakarta) on the island of Java in 1677.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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[1986Manon]

I have been looking for a copy for this movie for months. It is very important to me; can anyone please tell me where I can find this movie? Thanks in advance!

[sapper1984]

@1986Manon - try M-net sales

[Entschlossner87]

Von wann ist der Film?

[sapper1984]

"Die Bou van n Nasie"/"They Built a Nation" Joseph Albrecht, 1938, South Africa

[Ghuanita]

Ironies dat almal hierdie video kritiseer.

Tog het alles en alles van ons 'n sterker nasie gemaak.

Ek glo sterk dat ons vandag die grootste rasiste nog ooit groot maak deur komentaar soos hier bo mee te gee

[klaverenvrouwke]

Well i can honestly say that i am proud to be Dutch. Ofcourse there were many mistakes made when europeans went oversees, but I am proud of all the good things that have been accomplished. Not forgetting the suffering of a lot of people, but if I look at where the Netherlands stands now in the world, than I can honestly say that I am proud of what my small country has achieved so far.

[Waiguoren101]

Ek dink net ons moet weer kyk na hoe Bruin Afrikaners uitgebeeld word. Hulle het nie so gekniel voor die wittes nie, nie toe nie, nie nou nie. En as ons wittietjies nie oppas nie, gaan ons nog so kniel voor hulle om te oorleef in hierdie land

[altGoolam]

We know this video glosses over the truth of colonisation. But the fact that people still hold to an extreme glossed-over notion of the San in need of being civilised, and the honourable intentions of the Dutch, means that people are less likely to understand globalisation and imperialism in the 21st century, as it happens right before their eyes.

[BoerInc]

@Ghuanita Fokkof,ek is nie n rassis nie.Ek haat net die kaffirs.

[RickWolff]

This movie says as much about 1938 ( or whenever it was made) as it does about 1658. Probably more.

[Rico8458]

yeah, does this film start from here all the way thru to 1878 Paul Kruger?

[punkeruit1965]

@Ghuanita

onzin!

[punkeruit1965]

@EnLugal & Christiaan:

Probably you never had serious education:

How can you be proud of mass murdering & enslave black people covered by this pitifull reformed church of yours. I almost feel sorry for your dumbness.

AMANDLA!

(I'm Dutch too, white, & love the new South Africa for all people, no matter what colour their skin is.

[EnLugal]

You country will soon achieve another success - being the first majority muslim country in Europe.