His report led to his appointment with Simon Hendrik Frijkenius as Commissioners General in charge of the Company's possessions, with instructions to rectify matters abroad.

They did away with certain governmental posts, combated smuggling and imposed new taxes, in an attempt to reduce expenditure and increase income.

They granted the free burghers leave to export their products but, owing to lack of cargo space, this was of little benefit to the colonists.

On 1 September 1793, he and Frijkenius handed over the administration to Abraham Josias Sluysken, former Director of the VOC in Suratte, who as a pensioner on his way to the Netherlands, had stopped in the Cape Colony.

[4] On 24 September 1793 Nederburgh and Frijkenius departed on their journey to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, where they arrived on 13 November 1793.

In spite of Frykenius's protests, Governor General Willem Arnold Alting, in collaboration with Nederburgh, appointed his own son in-law, Johannes Siberg, as Van Stockum's successor.