The Contribution of Jan Van Riebeeck In Establishing The Modern Cape Town in South Africa
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EARLY LIFE Jan van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg on 21 April 1619, as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam , where he married a 19-year-old Maria de la Queillerie on 28 March 1649. She died in Malacca , now part of Malaysia, on 2 November 1664, at the age of 35. The couple had eight or nine children, most of whom did not survive infancy. Their son Abraham van Riebeeck , born at the Cape, later became Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies . ENROLMENT TO VOC Jan van Riebeeck joined the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie - also referred to as VOC) in 1639 where he began as an assistant surgeon on a voyage to Batavia (today known as Jakarta) in th...