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
Trekboers
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The Trekboers were nomadic or seminomadic pastoralists descended from mostly Dutch colonists on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa. The Trekboers began migrating into the interi
An aquatint by Samuel Daniell of Trekboers making camp. Depicted around 1804.
Mixed-race "Afrikander" Trekboer nomads in the Cape Colony, ancestral to the Baster people.
"Karoo Trekboer," by Charles Davidson Bell