Dutch Cape Colony Expansion (1670s)

Timeline

1. 1671–1673North of the Cape Peninsula · South AfricaDutch free burghers' (Vrijburghers) farms extended north beyond Table Bay, encroaching on traditional Khoikhoi pastures, with friction over livestock and wells growing increasingly frequent.
2. 1673–1677Saldanha Bay–Cape interior · South AfricaThe Cochoqua chief Gonnema was the main opponent in the Second Khoikhoi-Dutch War: in 1673 he ambushed and killed eight free-burgher hunters and raided the company's fortress at Saldanha Bay. The company repeatedly sent out militias but failed to capture Gonnema. In 1677 Gonnema sued for peace, agreeing to an annual tribute of thirty cattle. The name 'Daco' does not appear in verified 17th-century Cape war accounts.
3. 1679–1680Stellenbosch · South AfricaIn 1679 Simon van der Stel took office as commander of the Cape (later governor), and that same year founded Stellenbosch on the banks of the Eerste River, the second European town east of the Cape Peninsula, marking the advance of agricultural settlement inland. 'Langaburg' is a 20th-century Cape Town place name, not the site of a fort founded in 1679.