The official residence or headquarters of a drost (a magistrate or chief official); particularly used in South African colonial administration.
From Dutch drostdy, meaning the house or seat of a drost. The term came to South Africa through Dutch colonial rule in the 17th-18th centuries.
The drostdy became iconic in South African history—these magistrate's houses were the seats of colonial power, and many are now museums preserving that era's complicated legacy.
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