139 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/139/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:05:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png 139 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/139/ 32 32 Van Riebeeck’s Hedge in Cape Town https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/van-riebeecks-hedge-in-cape-town?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=van-riebeecks-hedge-in-cape-town Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// Jan van Riebeeck arrived at Cape of Good Hope in 1652. His mission was to create a station for the Dutch East India Company’s ships. This meant colonising the lands inhabited by the Khoikhoi. To keep them from accessing his land, van Riebeeck planted a wild almond hedge. The hedge was declared in 1936 a […]

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]]> Jan van Riebeeck arrived at Cape of Good Hope in 1652. His mission was to create a station for the Dutch East India Company’s ships. This meant colonising the lands inhabited by the Khoikhoi. To keep them from accessing his land, van Riebeeck planted a wild almond hedge. The hedge was declared in 1936 a National Monument, but since 2001 it has been the object of vandalism. For some, it means a physical and metaphorical segregation border in South Africa. This case offers an overview and analysis of the different processes and decision-making around van Riebeeck’s hedge.

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