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steenberg estate ESTATE REVIEW 23 Steenberg Golf Course hunting as well. This was not all that unusual for the time, and probably not really a tragedy, as he had already drunk his way pretty much through Catharina’s fortune. So, at the ripe old age of 36, the four-times-widowed Catharina upped sticks with her four (possibly five) children and headed off into the wilds that would become Constantia, taking up residence at the farm she called “Swaaneweide” – the feeding place of the wild swans. Catharina’s Restaurant