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- ↑ Anonymous (16 March 2011). "The Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families". www.sahistory.org.za. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ↑ tinashe (30 April 2012). "Jan van Riebeeck establishes the Burgher Militia a few days before the Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) rising at the Cape". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ↑ Mountain, Alan (2004). An Unsung Heritage. p. 18.
- ↑ Riebeeck, Jan van (1897). Riebeeck's Journal. p. 118.
- ↑ Leander (2 April 2015). "The Early Cape Slave Trade". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 12 July 2017.