The first group of Europeans to colonize and permanently settle around the Cape of Good Hope was

The first community of Europeans to repopulate and settle permanently around the Robe of Faith and hope was the Dutch.

Explanation:

The Netherlands was the first to repopulate and stay in 1652, under Jan Van Riebeeck, a merchant in the Dutch company East India, at Robe of Faith and hope.

A lot of small fisheries territories along the peninsula were created by Portuguese seafarers in the two decades following 1488. Jan van Riebeeck (Colonial administrator and Dutch navigator) created a victory ling depot in Robe of Faith and hope on the side of the Dutch East India Company in 1652.

Although the Dutch were not the ones who discovered the cape for Europe, they were the first European permanent settlers here. A settlement was established in 1652.