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  This historic Cape Dutch estate dating 1802 is centrally situated in the historic heart of Swellendam, the 3rd oldest settlement of South Africa.  |
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| In the year 1802, Augusta Uitenhage de Mist, then 18 years old, accompanied her father, Jacob Uitenhage de Mist to the Cape of Good Hope. Her father, had received instructions in Holland, to proceed to the Cape as Commissary-General. He was to accept transfer of the Colony from the British once again to the Dutch, to establish the new regime and install the Governor, General J.W. Janssens. |
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After settling matters of State, Commissary de Mist set out on an oxwagon journey into the hinterland of the Cape. Augusta accompanied her father on this 167 day hazardous trip. According to her diary, they passed within a few metres of this building around the 12th of December 1803, on the way to the Magistrate’s house, now the Drostdy Museum.. |