In 1652 the Dutch East India Company established stations at the Cape for its passing ships that engaged in trade with India. ... During the eighteenth century, largely in response to the Dutch East India Company's strict regulation on their lives, many settlers slowly moved away from Cape Town and established a dispersed, pastoral and patriarchal frontier society. ...

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