1672 in South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 1672 in South Africa.

Incumbents

The VOC attempts to transfer land previously seized from the Khoikhoi.^[4]
Sugar cane is introduced to South Africa.
The first Cape brandy is produced, and is then used as a currency in trade with the Khoikhoi.
13 Dutch East India officials are sent to Hottentots Holland to boost its wheat production.
War breaks out between the United Provinces of the Netherlands on one side, and both Britain and France on the other side.^[5]
The VOC assumes itself as the rightful owner of the Cape district, including Table Bay, Hout Bay, and Saldanha Bay.
The Duijnhoop redoubt is demolished.^[6]

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^ Report. Cape Town: Saul Solomon. 1865. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17880.
^ Theal, George McCall (2010), "Isbrand Goske, Governor, Installed 2nd October 1672, Retired 14Th March 1676", History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi 1505 – 1795, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 203–227, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511782879.011, ISBN 978-0-511-78287-9, retrieved 2025-02-23
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^ Report. Cape Town: Saul Solomon. 1865. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17880.