Esterhof is a settlement and housing development in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Esterhof is located roughly two kilometers to the east of Riebeek-Kasteel, separated by a railway and industrial buildings, and was originally created as part of apartheid initiatives that forcibly displaced Coloured people out of Oukloof in the 1960s.

[2] The local Village Management Board went ahead regardless, naming the new settlement Esterhof after its chair, Johannes Esterhuysen.

The Commission decided that financial compensation could be used by individuals to settle their debts to the municipality, which would then allow them to acquire full land tenure.

[3] For others, it enabled geographic and social mobility, allowing them to leave Riebeek-Kasteel and the Riebeek Valley, which many viewed as a site of entrenched oppression.