Jan van Riebeeck - Founder of the South African Capital.

So here we have the South Africa cent, nominal - 1. The year of issue of this coin is 1961, mint: South Africa, Gauteng province, Centurion. Total circulation – 52.266.000.

Jan van Riebeeck, in full Jan Anthoniszoon Van Riebeeck, born April 21 in 1619, Culemborg, Netherlands — died January 18 in 1677, Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), Dutch colonial administrator who founded in 1652 Cape Town and thus opened Southern Africa for white settlement.

His expedition to the Table Bay on April 6 in 1652, but work on the fort was slow because of crop failures and disorderliness. Van Riebeeck reported in 1655 that his mission would fail unless free burghers, working their own farms, were introduced. Accordingly, in 1657, former company servants were granted “letters of freedom” that protected company interests. Van Riebeeck also encouraged the importation of slaves and exploration of the interior.

Van Riebeeck made the first and futile attempts to restrict the movement of white settlers beyond the Cape Peninsula, but white encroachments on the land of the Khoekhoe people led to war in 1659–60, the first of many. When van Riebeeck left the Cape in 1662, the settlement there had more than 100 colonists.