Molteno Brothers

After his death, the younger brother Harry left the remainder as a trust fund that continues their charitable work to this day.

They may have been influenced by the purchase of some land in the area by their older brothers, Percy and Frank Molteno.

[5] At the height of their success, the brothers took the unusual move of ordering that their network of farms was to be divided up and returned "...to Elgin's farmworkers and inhabitants for their own use.

This area is today one of the more intensively farmed districts of South Africa and produces 60% of the national apple crop.

[6] A body that seeks to support education, cultural institutions and environmental causes in Southern Africa, in terms of the will of the younger brother Harry Molteno, who died in 1969.