So the initial settler population was small and due to the authoritarian rule of the Company such as telling farmers what to grow for what price, controlling immigration, and monopolising trade with the colony the population still grew and by 1800 due to the high birth rate the population was well over 60 thousand, so WI the VOC allowed more people to immigrate to the colony, and wasn't that harsh on populous could the colony have become a market of the companies goods is the population was bigger.