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Andries (also known as Andrew) Mauritz MOSTERT made his fortune out of prospecting, transport and civil engineering. Among his commissions was the construction of the Church Square project in Pretoria and the railway line from Johannesburg to Maputo. He was the founding chairman of ISCOR (SA Iron and Steel Corporation), also of the first South African directors of Barclays Bank and counted amongst his circle of friends leading politicians, including General Jan Smuts. In 1913 he commissioned BAKER to design his home 'Welgelegen' on the farm 'Rietbult' in Balfour District of the then Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). In 1933 he engaged MOERDIJK to design a family mausoleum on the same farm, where he and some of his descendants were buried. List of projects With photographs With notes
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