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1652 CE, April 6

Dutch East India Company (VOC) administrator, Jan van Riebeeck, established the first permanent European settlement in South Africa, at Cape Town, on April 6, 1652. The settlement was to support ships traveling to the East Indies. He built a fort and cultivated crops, marking the start of Cape Town.

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