Museum
Rust En Vreugd
Colonial townhouse with a Corinthian-columned stoep, built on the profits of a disgraced official.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rust en Vreugd in Cape Town centers on Willem Cornelis Boers, the feared Fiscal of the Dutch East India Company's Cape colony, who built this grand townhouse around 1777 at the very moment colonists were writing furious letters demanding his removal. You'll hear how his position let him seize goods and ruin reputations, and what the house became after his name left it. Look up at the balcony's carved ornament by Anton Anreith as you listen.
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