Land-en-Zeezicht is a neighbourhood of

Somerset West Somerset West ( af, Somerset-Wes) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa. Organisationally and administratively it is included in the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality as a suburb of the Helderberg region (formerly called Hottent ...

, in the

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. It was originally part of the historic

Vergelegen Vergelegen (Dutch: "remotely situated") is a historic wine estate in Somerset West, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Foundation The estate was settled in 1700 by an early Governor of the Cape, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Van ...

wine estate. In 1914, Hendrik Hendriksz came into possession of the area known as Land-en-Zeezicht, building his mansion on Verster Avenue. Two of his daughters, Alida and later Johanna, married

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan) Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (4 July 1845 – 11 October 1909) was a South African politician. He was affectionately known as ''Onze Jan'', "our Jan" in Dutch. Life He was born in Cape Town, educated at the South African College, and at an early ag ...

in that house. His family and descendants lived until 1947 and again from 1951 to 1971 on the farm. Gradually, the farm area urbanized. The

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counts began restoring the mansion in 1981, and in 1985, the mansion was declared a historical site, SAHRA file 9/2/083/0018 Western Cape Provincial Heritage Sites (previously National Monuments), page 42 (SAHRA file 9/2/083/0

Accessed July 10, 2019.

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