Is this where all the K@K started or what?

Afrikaners see Jan van Riebeeck as the founding father of their nation. When, on 6 April 1652, he arrived in the Cape with wife Maria de la Quellerie and the rest of his Dutch Settlers on three wooden sailing ships the Dromedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop, they started populating unchartered terrortory.