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It was founded by the Dutch East India Company to be used as a replenishing station for ships sailing on the trade route to Indonesia. The location was chosen for its sheltered bay which formed a natural harbour and protected ships from the strong prevailing wind, the South-Easter. The first European settlement was led by Jan van Riebeek, who arrived on 6 April 1652.
The seas around Cape Town are notorious and it was referred to as the "Cape of Storms". However the Dutch displaced the Khoi and SanSan (or santo is the Spanish word for saint, as in San Francisco ( Saint Francis) and San Diego. San is used as a title only, whereas santo is the regular usage (as in el es un santo or he is a saint or a title (as in Santo Domingo). San is another name f who were the native inhabitants. The Dutch imported slaves from AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E. The descendants of these slaves (known as the " Cape MalaysThe Cape Malays are an ethnic group who can claim descent from slaves brought to South Africa from Indonesia starting from 1667. They are predominantly found in the Western Cape. The slaves were Muslim resistors to Dutch imperialism and anti-Islamic perse"), along with the mixed race-offspring of natives and white settlers, eventually became the ethnic group called the " ColouredIn the South African context, the term Coloured refers to various people of mixed Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent (with some Malay or Indian ancestry, especially in the Western Cape) together with some racially "pure" Khoisans. In the apartheid era ss". Later the EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England conquered the Dutch to gain control of this strategic port.
Nelson MandelaNelson Rolihlahla Mandela OM (born 18 July, 1918) is a former President of South Africa, was one of its chief anti- apartheid activists, and was also an anti-apartheid saboteur and guerrilla leader. He is now almost universally considered to be a heroic f was imprisoned on an island near Cape Town, Robben IslandRobben Island ( Dutch for "seal island") is an island 12 km off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. It was first inhabited thousands of years ago when the channel dividing it from the mainland was not under water. Since the end of the 17th century, Robb until his transfer to another prison.