: Cape Town Escrito por Nigel Worden, E. Van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith(PAG 108)http://books.google.es/books?id=ntsyoxWIB44CTodo ello impulsó a los holandeses a tomar la iniciativa y la noche de Navidad del año 1651 una expedición de tres barcos, liderada por el capitán Jan van Riebeeck, partió del muelle de Amsterdam con la misión de establecer una base de avituallamiento en el extremo meridional de África. Los barcos llegaron al Cabo de Nueva Esperanza el día 4 de Abril de 1652, y en dicho lugar, en la Bahía de la Mesa (Tafelbaai, en afrikáans), Van Riebeck alzó la bandera tricolor neerlandesa y tomó posesión del lugar en nombre de la Compañía Holandesa de las Indias Orientales.
En un primer momento, se construyeron los edificios necesarios para albergar al comandante y a la guarnición, para lo cual se importaron esclavos malayos y malgaches.
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En un primer momento, se construyeron los edificios necesarios para albergar al comandante y a la guarnición, para lo cual se importaron esclavos malayos y malgaches.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaners
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The Hottentots.1655, June-July.
ResponderEliminarWatcrmans, living on the sea shore, and extending, in small numbers, as far as Saldanha Bay; 400 or 500 Vischman, with cattle, but without sheep, who came, in their yearly migrations, to the pasturage, after it had been exhausted by the cattle of the Caepmans, or when they went to seek other pasturage for their extensive herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. How the Caepmans gained that designation does not appear; the probability is that it was given to them by the first Portuguese or English navigators, from their occupying the country round the Cape. It seems quite certain that an extensive tribe inhabiting the interior, and having large herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, called themselves, and were called by others, Saldanicrs; and the probability is that the pasture lands of the Caepmans and of the Saldaniers were mutually respected, each leaving their permanent houses standing in their periodical pastoral migrations, and carrying with them only temporary mat huts, which they could easily strike, carry, and pitch again. It is to be hoped that the Brazilian, Captain WINTERVOGEL, who was chief of the first exploring commando which went into the interior in March, 1655, will throw some light presently on these subjects. The period had unhappily not arrived when the rights of aborigines were likely to be much respected. It would, indeed, have required, at any time, a person with some sense of justice, to have recognized those rights; to have understood and confirmed, rather than destroy the relations in which the various native chiefs and people stood towards one another. VAN RIEBEECK, the first Dutch governor, was not, certainly, that person. He had apparently been a Greenland whale-fisher, or probably superintendent of some whale-fishery in that region.
Memoir respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots, and Bosjemans, of South Africa, Volumen 1 John Sutherland Pike & Philip, 1846