Statue of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, Bronze monument in Church Square, Cape Town, South Africa.

The statue depicts Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr in formal clothing, with his hat held behind his back, standing on a stone pedestal. The monument was cast in bronze and stands in the center of Cape Town's business district at Church Square.

Sculptor Anton van Wouw created the monument in 1920 to honor Hofmeyr, who served in the Cape Colony parliament from 1879 to 1909. The work was completed after Hofmeyr's death and became a memorial to his role in early modern colonial history.

The copper plaque on the pedestal gives Hofmeyr's dates, 4 July 1845 to 16 October 1909, and the Dutch epitaph "Is het ons ernst" (is it our earnest). The phrase echoes the title of a 1905 Stellenbosch speech in which he argued for general use of Dutch in public and private life, education and the civil service.

The monument is located at Church Square in downtown Cape Town and is easy to reach on foot. The site sits in a busy area with many other historic buildings, so you can visit it as part of a broader exploration of the district.

In April 2015 the pedestal was wrapped in white material reading "A black woman raised me", and it was wrongly reported as vandalism during protests against colonial statues. It was in fact an art work by Kenan Petersen and Pola Maneli, supported by the Open City Arts Initiative, that coincided with the student-led campaign.