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The oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, the Castle of Good Hope was built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679 to defend the supply station it had established at the Cape, replacing an earlier earth-and-timber fort raised by the first commander, Jan van Riebeeck. Laid out as a five-pointed star in the manner of European fortifications of the age, with bastions named after the titles of the Prince of Orange, it once stood on the shore of Table Bay, though land rec...