Petrus Johannes Kotzé (10 May 1810 – 28 September 1888) was

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and member of the

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Biography

Kotzé received his education in

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and initially found himself in the business world, but on medical advice decided to start farming. In 1839 he bought a section of the Leeuwenhof estate, next to Hof Street in Cape Town, from Joseph Upjohn. In 1848 the owner of the other section of Leeuwenhof, Christoffel Brand, went insolvent which enabled Kotzé to buy that section as well. He began to cultivate the vineyards and orchards on the land and also established an impressive garden. Kotzé was one of the members for Cape Town on the Cape Legislative Assembly from 1859 to 1863 and 1866 to 1868. From 1879 to 1881 he was Mayor of Cape Town, and Kotzé Street in

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is named after him. He married Susanna Maria Blanckenberg and there were two sons and four daughters, born from the marriage. Both of his sons played prominent roles in Southern African society. The eldest son, J. J. Kotzé became the reverend of the

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of Darling, and the second son,

John Gilbert Kotzé Sir John Gilbert Kotzé King's Counsel, KC (5 November 1849 – 1 April 1940) was a South African jurist. Early life Kotzé was born in Cape Town and was given the Christian names of Johannes Gysbert Blanckenberg, but he used the anglicized ...

became chief justice of the

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References

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