“[T]hat our prosperity may never forget God's mercies shown to us, but always keep them in grateful memory.”

— Jan van Riebeeck

Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, December 1651 - December 1653, Riebeeck's Journal, H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town 1897, p. 184

After two tough years since their arrival Jan van Riebeeck set apart the 6th of April and resolved to make it a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

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Dutch colonial governor 1619–1677

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