![]() ![]() Shortly afterwards the Dutch Republic sent merchant vessels to India, and in 1602 founded the Dutch East India Company ( Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie VOC). The Portuguese landed in Mossel Bay in 1500, explored Table Bay two years later, and by 1510 had started raiding inland. ![]() ![]() The arrival of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India, in 1498 opened a gateway of free access to Asia from Western Europe around the Cape of Good Hope however, it also necessitated the founding and safeguarding of trade stations in the East. It originated from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland, incorporating words brought from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and Madagascar by slaves. Afrikaans, South Africa's third most widely spoken home language, evolved as the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. Afrikaners make up approximately 5.2% of the total South African population, based upon the number of White South Africans who speak Afrikaans as a first language in the South African National Census of 2011. Until 1994 they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. Afrikaner children in Namibia playing tug of warĪfrikaners ( Afrikaans: ) are a South African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. ![]()
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