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Ruyterwacht
RuyterwachtRuyterwacht's location in Western Cape
Coordinates: 33°55′10″S 18°33′25″E / 33.91944°S 18.55694°E / -33.91944; 18.55694
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
City	Cape Town
Area
• Total	1.41 km (0.5 sq mi)
Population
• Total	8,993
• Density	6,378/km (16,518.9/sq mi)
Races
• White	32.8%
• Asian	1.2%
• Cape Coloureds	50.1%
• Black	12.3%
• Other	3.6%
Languages
• English	47.1%
• Afrikaans	41.8%
• Xhosa	3.1%
• Other	8.0%

Ruyterwacht is a white northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino.

Eppingtuin ("Epping Garden Village"), as Ruyterwacht was once known, began as a subsidized housing project for underprivileged/poor white South Africans which has now been seized by a property company Communicare which has unlawfully sold the subsidized social housing and evicted poor families. In its early years as an independent township, it was administered by the Urban Housing Bureau under the Cape Town Divisional Council. Ons gemeentelike feesalbum (1951) includes an article on the Eppingtuin Reformed Church on the neighborhood's founding: "On September 7, 1938, the Centenary Year seventy families descended from Voortrekkers moved in among the luxuriant pines and crawling wildlife. Descended from sturdy Afrikaner stock, they swelled to several hundred in a matter of months."

The church hall of the mother congregation in Ruyterwacht is named after Zerilda Steyn, chairwoman of the Urban Housing Association (Afrikaans: Stedelike Behuisingsbond) from 1945 to her death in 1963.

Sources

• Olivier, Rev. P.L. (compiler) (1952). Ons gemeentelike feesalbum. Cape Town/Pretoria: N.G. Kerk-uitgewers.
• Potgieter, D.J. (ed.) (1972). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Nasionale Opvoedkundige Uitgewery (Nasou).

References

1. ^ "Subplek Ruyterwacht". Census 2011.

• Suburbs of Cape Town