Workers Revolutionary Party
Poor South Africans demonstrate against dispossession of their homes
TUESDAY 6th April, marked the 369th anniversary of the arrival of Dutch settlers in South Africa. The first settlers aimed at establishing trading posts and forts for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. It marked the first annexation of South Africa.
In the 15th century, other armies of slavers, conquerors and thieves came from Portugal but the first so-called Foreign Direct Investment on South African soil was Jan van Riebeeck’s brutal criminals.
After serving the company, the free burghers, as they were called, began the second wave of annexation, inland. Notably, this led to the establishment of Stellenbosch led by Simon van der Stel. But even more outrageous invasions were yet to come.