Johannes Joachim Lodewyk Smuts (9 July 1785 – 1 August 1869) was a public official in Cape Colony, businessman and the second Mayor of Cape Town.
[1] Smuts was married to Maria de Villiers, widow of Pieter Woutersen, who erected the Woutersen Wessels Vault in Green Point.
Smuts was also a member of the slave compensation board and acted with Hamilton Ross, as an agent for the payment of compensation money to former slaveowners.
[4] In 1844, Smuts succeeded Michiel van Breda as chairman of the Municipal Board of Cape Town, which was effectively the role of Mayor and during his term, in 1847, Cape Town was constituted a city in terms of letters patent granted by Privy Seal.
[1] Zorgwyk is today one of the last original surviving original farm homesteads in the Upper Table Valley, and was declared a National Monument in 1985.