Editing Cape of Good Hope (section)

==== The Dutch's first settlement ====
The [[Khoikhoi]] people lived in the cape area when the Dutch first settled there in 1652. The Khoikhoi had arrived in this area about fifteen hundred years before.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ehret |first1=Christopher|title=An African Classical Age |date=2001 |publisher=University of Virginia Press |location=Charlottesville, Virginia |isbn=978-0-8139-2057-3 |page=219}}</ref> The Dutch called them ''Hottentots'', a term that has now come to be regarded as pejorative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hottentot |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095946436 |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=Oxford Reference}}</ref>

In 1652, the [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|East India Company's]] administrator [[Jan van Riebeeck]] established a resupply camp for the [[Dutch East India Company]] some 50&nbsp;km north of the cape in [[Table Bay]] on April 6,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jan van Riebeeck: Dutch colonial administrator |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Dutch-Republic |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=Britannica}}</ref> and this eventually developed into [[Cape Town]]. Supplies of fresh food were vital on the long journey around Africa and Cape Town became known as "The Tavern of the Seas".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ward |first=Kerry |title="Tavern of the Seas"? The Cape of Good Hope as an oceanic crossroads during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |url=https://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/p/2005/history_cooperative/www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/seascapes/ward.html |journal=American Historical Association}}</ref>