Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff

First Baronet of De Grendel

Ebbe Dommisse

ISBN:

9780624053040

Epub ISBN:

9780624053248

Publisher:

Tafelberg

Date Released:

October 2011

Price (incl. VAT):

R 310.00

Format:

Hard cover, 368pp


About this book:

The extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of a true South African pioneer. Sir David de Villiers Graaff’s uniquely South African story begins as a herdboy in Villiersdorp in the middle of the 19th century. A well-off friend of the family intervened and took him to Cape Town to work in his butchery. Within a few years, Sir David was not only in charge of the butchery, but became the first person to use refrigerated meat storage facilities in South Africa. This led to the building of a business empire that made him a millionaire. He went on to have a colourful life and played a role in many South African milestones. He helped create Roggebaai by filling in the harbour with construction rubble, he entered politics to become mayor of Cape Town and brought streetlights to the town, expanded his business empire by providing meat to the British during the Anglo-Boer War and bought the wine farm De Grendel. When he was a bachelor in his fifties, the British monarchy awarded him the hereditary title of baronet – in the belief that it would die with him. But soon Sir David married the young daughter of the pastor of the Groote Kerk in Cape Town, and started a family that would eventually include the politician Sir De Villiers Graaff. Also available in Afrikaans as Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff: Die erfridder van De Grendel.

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