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Manifesto of the emigrant farmers By Piet Retief, 1837
Soon after the close of his correspondence with Lt.-Governor Stockenstrom, Piet Retief left this document behind when he joined other Afrikaners on…
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Dockside Prostitution – Apartheid and After
With the departure of the white prostitutes after the war, prostitution retreated into obscurity where it had been before. It returned to…
Dockside Prostitution – British Colonial Rule
The British took over the Cape in 1795, abolished slavery in 1834 and soon thereafter annexed Natal. The ports of Cape Town,…
Dockside Prostitution – Company Rule and Slavery
When the Dutch East India Company established Cape Town, it initially comprised a small settlement, a garden and a fort at the…
Dockside Prostitution in South African Ports
Article By : Henry Trotter, who holds a BA in English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, an MA in African Studies…
Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company…
STABROEK (1728)
Ship’s biography The Stabroek was built in 1722 for the Chamber of Amsterdam at the Amsterdam VOC shipyard. As a hekboot, it…
SCHOTSE LORRENDRAAIER (1722)
Ship’s biography The Schotse Lorrendraaier has already been briefly mentioned in the previous section on the Rotterdam, as it met the samefate…
ROTTERDAM (1722)
Winter in South Africa comes with violent winds. On 13 June 1722, when the Rotterdam arrived at the Cape, it anchored in…