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u Mostert’s Mill
Road map B5. Rhodes Drive.
@ Terminus in Strand St to Mowbray
station. Tel 021 782 1305.
Open phone to book. &
∑ mostertsmill.co.za
This old-fashioned windmill
dates to 1796 and stands on
part of the Groote Schuur estate
bequeathed to the country’s
people by financier Cecil John
Rhodes (see p56). Rhodes bought
the estate in 1891, donating a
Newlands Forest, a popular destination for weekend excursions portion to the University of Cape
Town, which today sprawls across
t Kirstenbosch and is Cape Town’s only the lower slopes of the mountain,
National Botanical surviving operational mill. its red-tiled roofs and ivy-covered
Garden Demonstrations take place from walls an unmistakable landmark
Monday to Friday (at 11am and above Rhodes Drive (M3). The
See pp164–5. 3pm), and fresh biscuits and mill is the only working windmill
flour are for sale. A pleasant in South Africa and is operated
restaurant in the grounds has from 10am to 2:30pm once a
y Newlands outside tables next to the river. month on a Saturday, subject
to weather and volunteers.
Road map B5. £ from Cape Town P Josephine Mill
station, Adderley St. @ Terminus in 13 Boundary Rd. Tel (021) 686-4939.
Strand St to Mowbray station. Environs
Open summer: 10am–7pm Mon–Fri, Directly east of Mostert’s Mill, in
An exclusive suburb nestled at 10am–2pm Sat; winter: 10am–4pm the suburb of Rosebank, is the
the foot of Table Moun tain’s Mon–Fri, 10am–2pm Sat. Milling Irma Stern Museum, dedicated
southern slopes, Newl ands is demonstrations: 11am & 3pm. & 8 to one of South Africa’s most
the headquarters for the Western 0 ∑ josephinemill.co.za talented and prolific modern
Province rugby and cricket painters, who died in 1966.
unions. The big Newlands sports Her magnificent home, The Firs,
grounds have served as the venue features 200 paint ings and her
for many international matches. collection of antiques.
The rugby stadium can hold up Travelling northwest from
to 50,000 spectators, and hosted Mostert’s Mill along the busy
the opening game of the 1995 M3, the road curves around
Rugby World Cup (see p38). Devil’s Peak to become De Waal
Newlands Forest runs along Drive, which heads into the city
the edge of the M3, a major centre. On the right is the famous
route that links Muizenberg Groote Schuur Hospital, where,
with the southern suburbs in 1967, the world’s first heart
and the city centre. Local transplant was performed by
residents love to take long Professor Christiaan Barnard. The
walks and exercise their dogs story is told in the Heart of Cape
through the forest’s tall blue Josephine Mill, Cape Town’s only Town Museum, inside the hos-
gums, pines and silver trees, surviving water mill pital, using life-sized models in a
which are watered by the
Newlands stream. Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825)
A little further on stands a
beautifully restored national A gracious Cape Georgian homestead
monument, Josephine Mill. in Newlands, now the Vineyard Hotel,
This mill, with its cast-iron was once the country home of political
wheel, was built in 1840 by a hostess Lady Anne Barnard, who lived
Swede, Jacob Letterstedt, on here from 1797 to 1802 with her
the bank of the Liesbeeck River, husband Andrew, the colonial
to grind wheat. It was named secretary. A gifted writer, she is
after the Swedish Crown remembered for her witty accounts of
life in the new colony. She was also a
Princess, Josephine. Today, this talented artist: dainty sketches often
fine example of 19th-century accompanied her letters and the entries
architecture is managed by in her journal. Lady Anne Barnard
Cape Town’s Historical Society,

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