Hugo Hendrik Mostert

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About Hugo Hendrik Mostert

From:
The Making of a Colonial Elite: Property, Family and Landed Stability in the Cape Colony, c.1750-1834
Wayne Dooling

Journal of Southern African Studies
Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 2005)

page 152

Summarised by Michele Woodroffe

During the recession of the 1820s a number of previously established landowners went bankrupt, many as a result of the Britain withdrawing its protection of the wine industry.

Hugo Hendrik Mostert declared bankruptcy around 1825, having farmed Wolwedans farm on the Mosselbanks Rivier .The title to Wolwedans passed to his uncle Nicolaas Everhardus Mostert.