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KwaMuhle Museum depicts Durban as an African city searching for identity within a new political context. This  mus...

About half an hour’s drive from Durban is a thriving industrial and commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine,...

The firm of WM Cuthbert & Co, shoe merchants, was established in 1882. Their Johannesburg building was designed by a...

Dolobran was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the famous explorer Carl Andersson. Andersson had...

The foundation stone of this building was laid on 5 May 1906 by General Koos de la Rey, and the church was officially co...

On Thursday 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR Church Johannesburg, being the DR Church Jeppest...

This structure, which combines a shop with onsite residential premises for its owner, was erected before 1905 and is the...

Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its...

Glenshiel is a National Monument in Westcliff , Johannesburg! It was built in 1908, and designed by Sir Herbert Baker. I...

A mobile South African National Monument, yes on wheels, is resting in the Museum railway yard at SANRASM, Krugersdorp. ...

Johann Georg Rathfelder was born in Stuttgart in 1811 and emigrated to the Cape in 1835. Following his marriage in the c...

Named after Jonas Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and ...

Click on image to enlarge Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 December 1975.   Diagonal...

The dwelling was built in 1898 by architect William Street-Wilson, as a residence for Sir David Hunter, General Manager ...

These two impressive verandah houses were erected in about 1903 on the instruction of mining magnate Sir Abe Bailey. Aft...

The Elephant House, located on Ridge road on Durban's berea, was built in the early 1850's on the highest natural point ...

The building, designed in a classical-revivalist style, is an important component of Smith Street, one of the most histo...

The building of Howard College at the University of Natal (now the University of Kwazulu Natal) was made possible by a d...

This Victorian double-storey building with cast-iron verandah was designed by architects Reid & Hurst in 1897 and wa...

This double-storey building was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has a number of fine neo-classica...

These two double-storey dwellings were erected in 1910 by George Thomas Hopkins. They have a number of fine Edwardian an...

This unique group of buildings known as the Groote Schuur campus of the University of Cape Town, was built in the classi...

This impressive Victorian double-storeyed house was designed by the architect AW Ackerman, and built by one Mannix for L...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977.

This double-storeyed structure was erected as a Rectory and Vicarage, in 1815 by building contractor, Herman Schutte, an...

This sandstone structure dates from 1902 when it was designed by Herbert Baker for De Beer Cold Storage Syndicate, a mea...

The church building was officially opened by Dr Andrew Murray on 9 July 1879. Eight months later, on 10 March 1880, the ...

This area began to be settled by free burghers in 1657, and for more than a century most of them travelled into Cape Tow...

The building dates back to the early 19th century and, in its time, has undergone a number of changes in its function, i...

The construction of the original structure probably dates to 1683, but it was rebuilt to its present form, as a double-s...