The Graaff Baronetcy, of Cape Town in the Cape of Good Hope Province of the Union of South Africa, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 February 1911 for the South African businessman and politician David Pieter de Villiers Graaff

Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet

Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, 1st Baronet was a South African cold storage magnate and politician. Graaff revolutionized the cold storage industry in Africa. He founded the Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company in 1899, and aggressively ran it until he left to serve in government. ...

. His son, the second Baronet, was also a politician and served as Leader of the United Party

United Party (South Africa)

The United Party was South Africa's ruling political party between 1934 and 1948. It was formed by a merger of most of Prime Minister Barry Hertzog's National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist Party...

 between 1956 and 1977.

The baronetcy is one of twelve conferred on South Africans between 1841 and 1924.

Graaff Baronets, of Cape Town (1911)

• Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, 1st Baronet
  Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet
  Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, 1st Baronet was a South African cold storage magnate and politician. Graaff revolutionized the cold storage industry in Africa. He founded the Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company in 1899, and aggressively ran it until he left to serve in government. ...
  
   (1859-1931)
• Sir De Villiers "Div" Graaff, 2nd Baronet
  Sir de Villiers Graaff, 2nd Baronet
  Sir De Villiers Graaff, 2nd Baronet known as Div Graaf, was a South African politician who succeeded his father, Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, 1st Baronet, to his baronetcy in 1931...
  
   (1913-1999)
• Sir David de Villiers Graaff, 3rd Baronet
  Sir David Graaff, 3rd Baronet
  Sir David de Villiers Graaff, 3rd Baronet , is a South African businessman and owner of De Grendel Wine Estate.The son of Sir De Villiers Graaff, 2nd Baronet, he was born in 1940, after his father left to serve in the North African campaign. Sir De Villiers became a prisoner of war in 1942, and...
  
   (b. 1940)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

 is the present holder's son de Villiers Graaff.

Other Graaffs

• Jacobus Arnoldus Graaff
  Jacobus Arnoldus Graaff
  Sir Jacobus Arnoldus Combrinck Graaff, also known as 'Sir James', was a South African cabinet minister, Senator, businessman, and South African Party whip....
  
   (1863-1927): Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet's younger brother and business partner. Jacobus was also an influential politician and government minister.
• Johannes de Villiers Graaff (* 1928): Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet's youngest son and noted South African welfare economist.