Question:
When did Jan van Riebeck arrive in South Africa?
vlammedic
2007-06-02 02:53:46 UTC
South African history
Twelve answers:
Tsepo
2007-06-04 05:01:21 UTC
6, 1652 at 15h13.



Die bliksim!
Norman D
2007-06-03 13:53:15 UTC
April 6, 1652 is the officially recorded date for Jan van Riebeeck ( Correct spelling)



I am interested in the comments from Stevie that Bartolemew Diaz was an earlier visitor, and he is quite correct. The Diaz Cross rests in the library of Wiwatersrand University for safekeeping. Unfortunately that was not the question that was asked.



Miyagi also added his bit to "who was first" debate and I have read of Phonecian exploration long before the birth of Christ.



This was also not the question asked.
Miyagi
2007-06-02 15:39:06 UTC
Jan Van Riebeeck arrived on April 6th 1652 hence the old holiday of Stigtingsdag. However the Portuguese had been there around 100-150 years before if I am not mistaken....Bartolomeo Diaz....



To stevieboy----- why do you say unfortunately the Portuguese? queiro saber porchè, nao te gusta os portugues ? Sorry for the bad portuguese...!
-♦One-♦-Love♦-
2007-06-02 09:57:43 UTC
6 april 1652
T.I
2007-06-02 19:08:38 UTC
On the 6th April 1652. ( This was drilled into my brain by my standard 2 teacher- a long time ago).
Bull IV
2007-06-04 06:25:22 UTC
Don't know, don't care.

The African should have marked that day as a glorious occassion worthy of mass celebration and jubilation, it was the day that marked the west freeing the natives from savagery and ignorance and ushered in a new era of hope, joy and prosperity, one with food for all and western medicine to cure the self inflicted disease and famine of Africa.

Instead of celebrating this momentus occassion, Africans chose to overpopulate and then spread vicious lies to the world that they were somehow oppressed and brutalised, they openly embraced the evils of communism and Islam and forced a mass exodus of skilled labour from the land only to replace those who have left with incompetent graduates of third world institutions whose degrees are roughly comparable to a western primary school education, they long to join their brothers throughout Africa in the queue for handouts from the West while all the while demeaning and oppressing europeans with their racist agendas and asenine government.

One can only wish that Van Riebek had not wasted the time and energy that it took to bring civilisation to an barbaric land.
jo v
2007-06-02 09:58:01 UTC
As a true south african i can help you with this one.lol.6april 1652
anonymous
2007-06-02 10:07:10 UTC
6th

april

1652
stevieboy69
2007-06-02 18:14:43 UTC
unfortunately the portuguese were the first travellers to see south africa
jovvijo
2007-06-03 14:08:27 UTC
1652.



Poor guy never realized what he was getting into!
anonymous
2007-06-02 10:29:52 UTC
1652 BC ( before Communism).
anonymous
2007-06-04 06:26:44 UTC
many blue moons ago


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