English Founded Cape Colony

Whilst it was the Portuguese who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and later landed on it at some point in the 1480s and in 1503 under Bartolomeu Dias and Antonio de Saldanha respectively it wasn't until 1652 that Jan van Riebeeck claimed Table Bay and founded the first European settlement on behalf of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie. 32 years earlier however two English captains, Andrew Shilling and Humphrey Fitzherbert, in the East India Company fleet had landed and claimed the area of Table Bay and the greater region in the name of James I and England, however for various reasons official support wasn't forthcoming and the claim was quietly dropped.

But what might be the implications if for some reason the government decided that it was a good idea and supported the founding of a small colony? Shilling and Fitzherbert originally envisaged a settler colony like Virginia but realistically I think it would mostly develop just as in our timeline with it mainly being concerned with the victualing of passing shipping and the control of a strategic location, at least in the beginning. What does this do to the character of an eventual Cape Colony and South Africa? No, or much reduced, Boers? Greater migration and a more 'English' South Africa? With the Table Bay and False Bay taken do the Dutch perhaps found their own settlement further along the coast in the Eastern Cape at say our timeline's Port Elizabeth or somewhere in Natal like Durban?
 
If you can butterfly away the Great Trek, you end up with a Cape that is demographically more like the more diverse parts of the US than like OTL's Western Cape (let alone the rest of South Africa), probably just one more dominion alongside Canada and Australia and New Zealand. The rest of OTL's South Africa becomes about 100% black, is an ex-colony, and looks at best like Botswana and at worst like Zimbabwe.

EDIT: as a clarification, "at best like Botswana" is a significant wank - Botswana is richer than South Africa, and is especially richer than black South Africa; it also never was subjected to apartheid. But it had a colonial history similar to that of other African colonies, just with a much better ending, whereas black South Africa's history is about apartheid rather than colonialism.
 
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... it also never was subjected to apartheid.
That is one of the things I was wondering about, how likely an apartheid apparatus might develop depending on how large a Dutch/Boer population there might be. The location just seems to useful for the VOC to not want a port of their own, Durban or what became Lourenco Marques seem like the best spots. If South Africa is governed like the other British colonies how do things go at decolonisation - on the one hand you had the settler colony of Rhodesia that tried to maintain white rule, on the other Kenya with an equally large white population transitioned to majority rule somewhat more easily.
 
That is one of the things I was wondering about, how likely an apartheid apparatus might develop depending on how large a Dutch/Boer population there might be. The location just seems to useful for the VOC to not want a port of their own, Durban or what became Lourenco Marques seem like the best spots. If South Africa is governed like the other British colonies how do things go at decolonisation - on the one hand you had the settler colony of Rhodesia that tried to maintain white rule, on the other Kenya with an equally large white population transitioned to majority rule somewhat more easily.

It depends on demographics. A Cape with a white majority is indistinguishable from Australia and Canada. A Cape with a black majority is indistinguishable from the range of other British colonies in Africa. A Cape with a Coloured majority (or near-majority as in OTL) is the most interesting - if we posit that there was never any Dutch settlement, then the Coloured language is English rather than Afrikaans, and at that point it's possible the UK would be able to treat them as equals. But there's still going to be some lingering racism if they try to emigrate to Britain en masse, including unfavorable comparisons with the Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders.
 
I think a Cape Colony founded in 1600 would be rather different than Kenya, founded in the late 19th century, guys.
 
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