This year on April 6 marked the founding of Cape Town. On that day in 1652 Jan van Riebeeck led colonists to found what would become Cape Town. For Afrikaners this was akin to our Pilgrim Father's establishing a colony in 1620. Remembering, let alone celebrating, Dutch settlement in South Africa has been tossed into the memory hole. The grand scheme of the Dutch East India Company was for Cape Town to be a supply link to aid the main chance: trade with the Spice Islands [today's Indonesia]. The role of citrus in preventing scurvy was known and the farmers, … Continue reading The Devil & Dr. Verwoerd