While South Africa and the Netherlands enjoy warm ties today, from 1652 to 1803 the Dutch ruled their colony in South Africa with violence. They conquered the San and Khoi, forcing many into ...

The Dutch established a colony in Africa before many other European countries. It is also the first colonial country which came to South Africa.

The Dutch monarchy has also recently shown more interest in the country’s colonial past. Last year, the king ordered a team to research his family’s involvement in the slave trade. Image ...

The Dutch colonized the southwestern part of South Africa in 1652 through the Dutch East India trading company. They controlled the Dutch Cape Colony for more than 150 years before British occupation.

The weight of history is bearing down on the king. For decades campaigners in former Dutch colonies in the Caribbean have called on the Netherlands to apologize and pay reparations for the brutal ...

The Dutch colonized the southwestern part of South Africa in 1652 through the Dutch East India trading company. They controlled the Dutch Cape Colony for more than 150 years before British occupation.

For almost a century the Dutch prospered in sugar and the slave trade. But when they turned their attention to Java and Sumatra in the East Indies in the 19th century, the western colonies languished.

The Dutch colonial empire stretched from Suriname in South America, to South Africa and Indonesia in Southeast Asia. The government has acknowledged that for more than 300 years, ...

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The Dutch colonized the southwestern part of South Africa in 1652 through the Dutch East India trading company. They controlled the Dutch Cape Colony for more than 150 years before British occupation.

Slavery was also enforced in the Dutch East Indies — a major colony that included modern-day Indonesia — until the 19th century. In response to questions from NBC News, Pauline van Voorst, a ...