Weltevrede Estate

 

 

Weltevrede Wine Estate offers more than three hundred hectares of vines where a writer can use the freedom of farm roads and fresh air to find inspiration. Weltevrede is situated in the peaceful Bonnievale valley beside the Breede River and surrounded by hills of renosterveld with the Riviersonderend and Langeberg as backdrop. It is a place of peace and tranquility and Weltevrede Writers cottage, Ons Huisie, is available for those who want to find inspiration or complete a manuscript.

 
The Weltevrede Writers studio is in a building which was built by Italian prisoners of war during the Second World War. It is situated in a garden amongst ancient trees and consists of a collection of more than   three thousand books, many of which are Africana. These are available to writers for research purposes.




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It is not a dusty, dead archive, rather it is pulsing with life. One becomes aware that between all the pages of all these books there are stories and tales of people and events, of facts and knowledge. Many of these life stories and this information would have been lost in the twilight of forgetfulness if not for the fact that this wonderful collection has given them new life. What a privilege to open pages which for 50 or a 100 years have been shut."

- Marianna Holmes, Librarian