No permanent settlement existed until the Dutch East India Company issued a mandate to Jan van Riebeeck, a ship's surgeon, to establish a settlement which could provide passing ships with fruit, vegetables and fresh meat (traded from the natives).
The area fell out of regular contact with Europeans until 1652, when Jan van Riebeeck and other employees of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or simply VOC) were sent to the Cape to establish a halfway station to provide fresh water, vegetables, and meat for passing ships travelling to and from Asia.
In 1643, Riebeeck travelled with Jan van Elseracq to the VOC outpost at Dejima in Japan Seven years later in 1650, he proposed selling hides of South African wild animals to Japan.
The history of the port follows that of Cape Town, which traces its roots back to 6 April 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a revictualing station there.
It formed part of the defences of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie 'VOC' replenishment station, which had been established under Jan van Riebeeck in 1652.
A full-scale replica of Jan van Riebeeck's ship, the Dromedarus, takes visitors on a free boat ride on the lake.
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Jan van Riebeeck (1619–1677), colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town (South Africa)
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Roelof de Man (1634 - 1663), bookkeeper and second-in-charge to Jan van Riebeeck at founding of Cape Town (South Africa)
There, in 1695, he married the 26-year younger Johanna Maria van Riebeeck (1679-1759), daughter of Abraham van Riebeeck and granddaughter of Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town.