| Ruyterwacht | |
| Pushpin Map: | South Africa Western Cape |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Ruyterwacht's location in Western Cape |
| Pushpin Label: | Ruyterwacht |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | City |
| Subdivision Name1: | Western Cape |
| Subdivision Name2: | Cape Town |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.41 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.5 |
| Population Total: | 8993 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 6378 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 16518.9 |
| Demographics Type1: | Races |
| Demographics1 Title1: | White |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 32.8% |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Asian |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 1.2% |
| Demographics1 Title3: | Cape Coloureds |
| Demographics1 Info3: | 50.1% |
| Demographics1 Title4: | Black |
| Demographics1 Info4: | 12.3% |
| Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics1 Info5: | 3.6% |
| Demographics Type2: | Languages |
| Demographics2 Title1: | English |
| Demographics2 Info1: | 47.1% |
| Demographics2 Title2: | Afrikaans |
| Demographics2 Info2: | 41.8% |
| Demographics2 Title3: | Xhosa |
| Demographics2 Info3: | 3.1% |
| Demographics2 Title4: | Other |
| Demographics2 Info4: | 8.0% |
Ruyterwacht is a poor white northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino.
Eppingtuin ("Epping Garden Village"), as Ruyterwacht was once known, began as a subsidized housing project for underprivileged/poor white South Africans which has now been seized by a property company Communicare whom has unlawfully sold the subsidized social housing and evicted poor families. In its early years as an independent township, it was administered by the Urban Housing Bureau under the Cape Town Divisional Council. Ons gemeentelike feesalbum (1951) includes an article on the Eppingtuin Reformed Church on the neighborhood's founding: "On September 7, 1938, the Centenary Year [of the [[Great Trek]]] seventy families descended from Voortrekkers moved in among the luxuriant pines and crawling wildlife. Descended from sturdy Afrikaner stock, they swelled to several hundred in a matter of months."
The church hall of the mother congregation in Ruyterwacht is named after Zerilda Steyn, chairwoman of the Urban Housing Association from 1945 to her death in 1963.