A view of Table Mountain from the deck of the MSC Opera

Governors of Cape Town

Jan van Riebeeck

1652 - 1662

Zacharias Wagenaar

1662 - 1666

Cornelis van Quaelberg

1666 - 1668

Jacob Borghost

1668 - 1670

Peter Hackius

1670 - 1671

Albert van Breughel

1671 - 1672

Isbrand Goske

1672 - 1676

Johann Bax van Herentals

1676 - 1679

Simon van der Stel

1679 - 1699

William Adrian van der Stel

1699 - 1708

Louis van Assenberg

1708 - 1713

Maurice de Chavonnes

1714 - 1724

Jan de la Fontaine

1724 - 1726

Gysbert Noodt

1726 - 1729

Jan de la Fontaine

1729 - 1739

Adrian van Kervel

1739 (3 weeks)

Henry Swellengrebel

1739 - 1751

Ryk Tulbagh

1751 - 1771

Joachim van Plettemberg

1771 - 1785

Van de Graaff

1785 - 1791

John Reinus

1791 - 1793

Abraham Sluysken

1793 - 1795

First British Occupation

1795 - 1803

Batavian Republic

1803 - 1806

Jacob de Mist

1802 - 1805

John Williams Janssens

1805 - 1806

David Baird

1806 - 1807

Henry George Grey

1807

Du Pré Alexander

1807 - 1811

Henry George Grey

1811

John Francis Cradock

1811 - 1814

Charles Somerset

1814 - 1826

Richard Bourke

1826 - 1828

Galbraith Lowry Cole

1828 - 1833

Thomas Francis Wade

1833 - 1834

Benjamin d'Urban

1834 - 1838

George Thomas Napier

1838 - 1844

Peregrine Maitland

1844 - 1847

Henry Pottinger

1847

Harry Smith

1847 - 1852

George Cathcart

1852 - 1854

Charles Henry Darling

1854

George Grey

1854 - 1861

Robert Henry Wynyard

1861 - 1862

Philip Edmond Wodehouse

1862 - 1870

Charles Craufurd Hay

1870

Henry Barkly

1870 - 1877

Henry Bartle Frere

1877 - 1880

Henry Hugh Clifford

1880

George Cumine Strahan

1880 - 1881

Hercules Robinson

1881 - 1889

Henry Augustus Smyth

1889

Henry Brougham Loch

1889 - 1895

Hercules Robinson

1895 - 1897

William Howley Goodenough

1897

Alfred Milner

1897 - 1901

Walter Hely-Hutchinson

1901 - 1910