Dutch Cape Colony
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The Dutch Cape Colony, officially known as the Cape of Good Hope Waystation, was a colony of the Dutch East India Company and Batavian Republic in Southern Africa. Centered on the Cape of Good Hope, f
View of Table Bay with ships of the United East India Company (VOC), c. 1763
Painting of an account of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, by Charles Bell
Portrait of Jan van Riebeeck
Meeting between Governor Janssens and the Xhosa chief Gaika in 1803
Afrikaans
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and also Argentina, where a group in Sarmiento speaks a Patagonian dialect. It
Dutch Cape Colony
…still wider groups of Khoe-speaking cattle herders for the best grazing lands. The Cape society in this period was thus a diverse one. The emergence of Afrikaans reflects this diversity, from its roots as a Dutch pidgin, to its subsequent creolisation and use as "Kitchen Dutch" by slaves and serfs of the colonials…
Obelisks of the Afrikaans Language Monument near Paarl
Standard Dutch used in a 1916 South African newspaper before Afrikaans replaced it for use in media
"Dit is ons erns" ("This is our earnestness"), at the Afrikaans Language Monument
The side view of the Pretoria Art Museum, in Arcadia, Pretoria, with its name written in Afrikaans, Xhosa and Southern Ndebele