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About De Rust, Western Cape, South Africa

De Rust is a small village at the gateway to the Klein Karoo. De Rust is located at the foot of the Swartberg Mountain range between Oudtshoorn and Beaufort West. De Rust is also known for the Meandering Pass named Meiringspoort.Meiringspoort is a gateway that connects the Klein Karoo and the Karoo through a gorge with a 25 km road crossing the same river 25 times in the span of the 25 km. This area is also well known for Ostrich farming and most of the farmers in the area either farms exclusively with ostriches or as a sideline to their existing farming.

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By the beginning of the 18th century about 29 farmers lived in an area called Groenkloof and on one of these farms, Langfontein, De Rust was founded in 1853. It was named after Sir Charles Henry De Rust who came in 1851 to the Cape as Lieutenant Governor.

The De Rust Museum shows the history of the town and the De Rust creamery which was established in 1899 by two Swedish settlers, Nils Georg Moller and G. Threnstrom, and was closed in 1950. De Rust is famous for its wildflowers and since 1917 the annual De Rust Wildflower show is held by the De Rust Wildflower Society, founded in 1915 by Mrs. Suzanne Malan and Mr. Frederick Duckitt of Waylands.

The first private school to open its doors in the Swartland area, De Rust College, is also situated close to the entrance of the down on the Malmesbury side.

The area is malaria-free, safe with a very low crime rate and we pride ourselves on a fantastic climate - beautiful sunny winter days with cool nights. Summers are perfect, hot and sunny.

The town itself is peaceful and tree lined with excellent examples of late 19th century architecture. Our drinking water from a mountain spring puts expensive bottled water to shame.

De Rust History

Early in the last century a young man from Worcester, near Cape Town, Petrus Johannes Meiring (a grandson of Pastor Arnoldus Meiring who arrived from Lingen in Germany in 1743) rode into the Klein Karoo's Elephants River Valley. He never stopped exploring and eventually discovered the route through the Swartberg Mountain Range, which in later years became the famous Meiringspoort. Long before the village was established, De Rust had already been a place to outspan and rest before challenging the route through the poort. In 1900 De Rust was established on a portion of Meiring's farm.

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