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Zoute River Cottage, Hopefield

Zoute River Cottage, Hopefield

Zoute River Cottage, is a West Coast, Country retreat for writers, artists and dreamers. The studio Cottage is the perfe...

Gately House Museum, East London

Gately House Museum, East London

Peruse through the former home of John Gately, an Irish Immigrant who was one of the founders of the municipal council a...

Old Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston

Old Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston

17 January 2020

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. This former government building, an a...

The Simon's Town Mosque

The Simon's Town Mosque

17 October 2019

the Malay Quarter of Simon’s Town.[i] The Noorul Islam Mosque looks down majestically from Thomas Street, Simon’s Tow...

Victoria Tower, Uitenhage

Victoria Tower, Uitenhage

Uitenhage developed from 1804 to 1910 from a settlement with a typical Dutch Layout popular in the Cape Colony at the ti...

KwaMhlanga

KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the...

Montecasino

Montecasino is located in the suburb of Fourways in Northern Johannesburg. The casino and entertainment complex is desig...

Funda Community College

Funda Community College

Funda Community College was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on l...

Stevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town

Stevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town

The gallery, Stevenson, was founded in 2003 after two of its founding directors Michael Stevenson and Andrew da Conceica...

Michaelis School of Fine Art

Michaelis School of Fine Art

The Michaelis School of Fine Art, the namesake of the Fine Art Department of the University of Cape Town, is located on ...

Official residence, Commander of British forces in South Africa, Roberts Heights, Pretoria

Official residence, Commander of British forces in South Africa, Roberts Heights, Pretoria

This building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and was completed in 1903 as the official residence of the Commander-in-...

Mill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico

Mill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico

Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron ma...

Musgrove road, Berea

Musgrove road, Berea

Click on image to enlarge Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 July 1984. This is a double-sto...

Old Arts Building, University of Pretoria

Old Arts Building, University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria Museums are celebrating another milestone, as the Old Arts Building was declared a museum in ...

Pretoria Correctional Service Museum

Pretoria Correctional Service Museum

The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul Kruger streets, ha...

Lanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth

Lanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth

This dwelling was erected in 1894 for RH Hammersley-Heenen, resident engineer and general manager of the South African R...

Old Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage

Old Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage

This is an engaging structure, with a high pitch roof, dormer windows and ornate fretted timber details. Built on Market...

Town Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage

Town Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage

Since the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Tow...

Stone House, Parktown, Johannesburg

Stone House, Parktown, Johannesburg

This dwelling, designed by Herbert Baker in 1902 as his own home, is an important component of Parktown's surviving arch...

Museum Africa

Museum Africa, Johannesburg's major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct's ol...

Cuthbert’s Building, Eloff Street, Johannesburg

Cuthbert’s Building, Eloff Street, Johannesburg

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

Emoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg

Emoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg

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

Glenshiel, Westcliff, Johannesburg

Glenshiel, Westcliff, Johannesburg

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

North Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg

North Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg

North Lodge was modeled on French and Scottish castles! The building, designed by Herbert J Aldwyncle, was completed in ...

Pilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg

Pilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg

Pilrig House is situated at; no.1 Rockridge Road. A classic Baker House built in the arts and crafts style, with a stone...

Randjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg

Randjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in ...

Rissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg

Rissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg

The correct name of Johannesburg's Old Post Office clock is the "Coronation Clock'. This might be a good point for city ...

Greenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg

Greenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg

When Lourens Geldenhuys was 14, his father moved them to the gold reef, where their farm began searching for gold, this ...

Sarepta

The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish  – of the river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germa...

GA Riches Printer Building, 423 Smith Street, Durban

GA Riches Printer Building, 423 Smith Street, Durban

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

Howard College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal

Howard College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal

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

Little Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban

Little Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban

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

Muritai House, 22 Sophia Street, Oranjezicht

Muritai House, 22 Sophia Street, Oranjezicht

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 May 1989.

Hopkins Street 64-66, Parow

Hopkins Street 64-66, Parow

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

Middle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch

Middle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch

The Upper, Middle and Lower Campuses together are often referred to as the 'main campus' The Campus as it stands today ...

Martello Tower, Simonstown

Martello Tower, Simonstown

The circular tower was erected in 1796 on the orders of James Craig to improve the defence system of Simonstown. It has ...

Prince Alfred House, Waterloo Road, Wynberg

Prince Alfred House, Waterloo Road, Wynberg

This Colonial House has subsequently been sold and now used as a Doctor's Audiology place of Business even though, it ha...

Victorian dwelling, 14 Langley Road, Wynberg

Victorian dwelling, 14 Langley Road, Wynberg

The Structure was erected at the turn of the 20th Century and has prominent Victorian Architectural features. It was dec...

Vineyard Hotel, Colington Road, Newlands

Vineyard Hotel, Colington Road, Newlands

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977.Over the past two Centuries, The Viney...

Wrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory

Wrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory

The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date from the last quarter of the 18th century, but subsequent a...