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were gradually absorbed into the Afrikaners. Otherwise, there is no trace of Portuguese influence inSouth Africa. Portuguese-speaking Brazil wiped out the French Calvinistic missionaries that Calvinsent to Rio de Janeiro. But Calvinist South Africa swallowed up the Portuguese Roman Catholiccrosses which they erected of the coast. Yet during just the last few years with the collapse ofPortugal's African colonies of Mozambique and Angola in Africa and their being taken over byleftist communist governments, there has indeed been a massive influx of Portuguese-speakingWhites (or "almost Whites") into South Africa to seek refuge there. Consequently today, of theentire White South African population, about one-sixth are Portuguese-speaking people who havemoved there from Angola and Mozambique in the last few years after the collapse of theirhomelands to communism.Now in the last major year (1647) of Britain's Calvinistic Westminster Assembly, the DutchmanLeendert Janszen was shipwrecked off the southern tip of Africa -- trying to establish a reliablesouthern (and then an eastbound) water route to Indonesia (where the Dutch had secured a colonyin 1602-1605). His ship, the North Haarlem, was wrecked in a very stormy part of southern Africa-- somewhat like Cape Horn in South America -- which he called the Cape of Good Storms.Janszen went back and dejectedly told the Dutch East India Company, which was a Calvinistictrading organisation, that he had been shipwrecked off the Cape of Good Storms. They said: No,you are too pessimistic. We are going to call it, as good optimists, the Cape of Good Hope -- notthe Cape of Good Storms!" So it was, that they made the decision -- in spite of the inhospitablenature of the water currents near what was later to become Cape Town -- to establish the CapeColony.Van Riebeeck enters Table Bay - 1652Just thirty-two years earlier, three ships had come sailing from Holland to North America --bringing the Pilgrims with the Mayflower Compact to New England. Now, thirty-two years later,three ships came sailing from the same Holland, but this time southbound to Southern Africa. Theywere the good ship Dromedaris (meaning "camel"), the good ship Reyger, and the good ship GoodHope (not "Good Storms").Now when Janszen got back to Holland after the shipwreck in 1650, the Dutch East India Companydecided to colonise the Cape. This was done chiefly to set up a recoiling and vegetable supply
station -- to help the Dutch ships on their way through to Indonesia (where the real wealth was).The following resolution was taken: "May we live in good association with South Africa, and intime employ some of her children (meaning the small numbers of yellow-skinned Hottentots) asservants and helpers, and train them in the Christian religion. Thus, if it pleases Almighty God tobless these good matters, may many be brought to the Reformed Christian religion and to God. Assuch, may the building of a fort and a garden and a town at the Cape -- Cape Town -- not onlyredound to the advantage and profit of the honourable Dutch East India Company. May it alsoredound for the preservation and salvation of many human lives. That is the most important aspectin the magnification of God's most holy Name and the propagation of His Holy Gospel. Therebyyour honourable Company's activities throughout Indonesia will undoubtedly more and more beblessed!"And so it was that two years later, the Dutch East India Company decided to establish this colony atthe southern tip of Africa. As its governor, it sent out Dr. Johan van Riebeeck MD, a Calvinistphysician. He was married to a French speaking Huguenot lady, Marie de Quellerie. Three shipscame sailing. They brought with them to the southern tip of Africa the Heidelberg Catechism, theBelgian Confession, the five-point "Tulip" Decrees of Dordt, the Dordt Dutch Bible -- and also acommission from the Presbytery of Amsterdam to establish a congregation of the Reformedreligion in Southern Africa. They brought with them the influence of Luther and especially of JohnCalvin. That has been precious in South Africa ever since.The godly governor Johan van Riebeeck MD caught sight of Table Mountain -- flat as a pancake ontop; a mile high; soaring up out of the sea. As the waves were crashing against the beach, he gotdown on his knees on the sand and prayed the following prayer:"0 merciful gracious God and heavenly Father! as it has pleased Thy Divine Majesty to call us hereat the Cape of Good Hope to gather, with our own Council, in Thy holy Name -- may we makesuch decisions as maintain justice and, if it be possible, implant and expand Thy true ReformedChristian religion in Thy good time among these wild and brutal natives to the praise and honour ofThy Name. This we pray and desire in the Name of Thy dear Son, our Mediator and Saviour, JesusChrist. Amen!"Six months later, on the l4th of October 1652 -- to be followed by other enactments in 1665 --Governor van Riebeeck enacted measures against Sabbath desecration. Thus Sunday Observancehas always been the political policy and social pattern of South Africa ever since the advent of itscivilisation -- even to this very day. Abstentions from Sunday worship at the Cape were punishedby confiscation of six day's wine ration for the first transgression; by forfeiture of one month'ssalary for the second transgression; and by a sentence of one year's unpaid labour in chains for thethird transgression.The Dutch built a castle, and cultivated fresh vegetables all the way from Table Bay to Wynberg(the "Mountain of Wine"). At Kirstenbosch, they erected a hedge: to demarcate the boundarybetween the new White settlers -- and the yellow-skinned people who wandered around withoutowning land. Thus South Africa adopted a policy of territorial racial segregation, as much aspossible, from its beginning -- and ever since.Of course, there was some miscegenation and intermarriage between the first Dutchmen thatarrived there -- and some of those yellow-skinned women. For there were not yet any Whitewomen at the Cape. As Soon as the yellow-skinned women were baptized in the Name of theTrinity, they were treated on the basis of complete equality -- and intermarriage was permitted. Butit was soon discovered that there were still cultural differences between the Hottentots and the
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