ABSTRACT

Peter J.M. Nas, Margot N. te Velde, Annemarie Samuels Introduction1 Cape Town is located on the Cape Peninsula, the southernmost tip of South Africa. Mountains and the sea enclose it. Nobody knows exactly when the first people came to this place, but the first time European explorers set ashore at the Cape, they encountered an indigenous people, the Khoisan. The Portuguese were the first Europeans who discovered the Cape, in their search for a route to India, but they did not stay there. The Dutch, on the contrary, settled in Cape Town, which remained under Dutch rule for a century and a half.