Dutch Cape Colony

Dutch colony in Southern Africa, 1652–1795 and 1802–1806

200px|thumb|right|Copper duit coin from 1735, with the Dutch East India Company|VOC [[monogram on the obverse and the crowned coat of arms of the Province of Holland on the reverse.]]

architectural style in South Africa

Landdrost () was the title of various officials with local jurisdiction in the Netherlands and a number of former territories in the Dutch Empire. The term is a Dutch compound, with land meaning "region" and drost, from Middle Dutch drossāte (droes-state, bloke-castle, state-holder) which originally referred to a lord’s chief retainer (who later became the medieval seneschal or steward), equivalent to: an English reeve or steward; a Low German Drost(e) of Northern Germany (cognate with German Truchsess); or German Meier (from Latin majordomus).

Slavery in the Cape Colony

historical socioeconomic group of Afrikaners in the Western Cape

aspect of history