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Old House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
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Jun 20, 2025

Old House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban

The Old House Museum in eThekwini offers a captivating journey through time, showcasing the rich heritage and stories of...

Bishopscourt, Cape Town
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Aug 06, 2019

Bishopscourt, Cape Town

Set right against the slopes of Table Mountain in the Constantia Valley, Bishopscourt gives new meaning to the term ‘lea...

Sarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
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Jul 14, 2011

Sarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg

The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children has a vision to create a safe and secure society and a human rights ...

Mandela House
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Jul 14, 2011

Mandela House

The Mandela House Museum in Soweto is housed in what was once the home of  Nelson Mandela, the World's most famous ...

Mill House, Boundary Road, Newlands
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Jul 14, 2011

Mill House, Boundary Road, Newlands

This double-storey mill and private residence was erected by Jacob Letterstedt in the 1840's. It now forms an integral p...

Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape
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Aug 02, 2024

Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape

Declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Government, Mqhekezweni is a very significant early great place o...

Koopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
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Jul 14, 2011

Koopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town

The land was granted at the turn of the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Stel to a rich merchant, Reynier ...

Nkandla, KZN
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Jul 05, 2021

Nkandla, KZN

Nkandla is a Town in the uThungulu District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the seat of the Nkandla Local Municipa...

Valkenburg Hospital, Observatory
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Jul 14, 2011

Valkenburg Hospital, Observatory

The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek...

Redelinghuys, Cape West Coast
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Mar 19, 2020

Redelinghuys, Cape West Coast

Lying but two hours' drive from Cape Town, Redelinghuys is known as the potato Capital of the Sandveld. It lies on the R...

Bo-Kaap Museum
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Jul 14, 2011

Bo-Kaap Museum

Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter, the Bo-K...

Irma Stern Museum
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Jul 14, 2011

Irma Stern Museum

The museum was established in 1971, in the house Stern lived in for almost four decades. After her death, her art became...

Sammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
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Jul 14, 2011

Sammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria

The Sammy Marks Museum is a Victorian Mansion called Zwartkoppies Hall, situated about 23km outside Pretoria. The 48-roo...

Caledon Museum, Eastern Cape
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Apr 08, 2019

Caledon Museum, Eastern Cape

The Caledon Museum is split into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian Hou...

Tradouw Pass
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Jan 10, 2022

Tradouw Pass

This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and rugged mountain drives, in the Langeberg! (This Pass is in the Top 20 ...

 Leeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
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Jul 14, 2011

Leeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town

Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stan...

Alphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town
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Jul 14, 2011

Alphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town

The Alphen Estate was granted to Theunis van Schalkwyk in 1714. Its Historic Homestead is a square plan double-storey ma...

Jan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
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Jul 14, 2011

Jan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town

Jan de Waal, born in Amsterdam, arrived at the Cape in 1715 as an employee of the Dutch East India Company The erf on wh...

Louw House Museum, Sutherland
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Feb 06, 2020

Louw House Museum, Sutherland

A literacy Museum in the house where two famous Afrikaans poets and writer brothers, N.P van Wyk Louw and W.E.G. Louw we...

Tokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
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Jul 14, 2011

Tokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.

The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, Within two months, had sold it on to Andries Teubes, who probabl...

Welgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
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Jul 14, 2011

Welgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill

In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven...

Grootvaderbosch Farm, Heidelberg
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Aug 26, 2020

Grootvaderbosch Farm, Heidelberg

The Strawberry Hill Farmhouse (now a guest house) was built in the late 1800’s by Thomas Dunbar. Thomas Dunbar was a ren...

Belvidere, Knysna
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Mar 16, 2011

Belvidere, Knysna

Captain Thomas Henry Duthie emigrated to the Cape in 1826. In 1830 he visited Knysna, where he was the guest of George R...

Albertyn’s House, Simonstown
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Aug 29, 2011

Albertyn’s House, Simonstown

The structure was erected in 1799-1801 by Alexander Tennant, in Simonstown. It was declared a National Monument und...

Agricultural Publications Building, Vermeulen Street, Pretoria
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Jul 14, 2011

Agricultural Publications Building, Vermeulen Street, Pretoria

The Building was erected in about 1914 to accommodate the premises of E.P. Grant, a general merchant. It was declared a ...

Admiralty House, Simonstown
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Jul 14, 2011

Admiralty House, Simonstown

The Building dates from the mid-18th Century and its ownership was transferred to the Admiralty in 1814. Rear-Admiral Ja...

Parsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
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Jul 14, 2011

Parsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth

This is probably the oldest surviving house in Port Elizabeth and was built by Rev Francis McClelland of the Church of E...

Woolsack House, Rondebosch
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Feb 15, 2019

Woolsack House, Rondebosch

Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive has a...

Hatfield Street 139, Gardens
Place
Nov 30, 2017

Hatfield Street 139, Gardens

Declared a Provinsial Heritage Site, like so many of the lovely old houses on Hatfield Street, in Cape Town!

Yokohama, Muizenburg
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Mar 19, 2018

Yokohama, Muizenburg

On Muizenberg Main Road, you’ll find a historical house called “Yokohama”, it was constructed in 1906 out of paper maché...

Posthuys
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Mar 20, 2018

Posthuys

Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a loo...

Ruth Prowse School of Art
Place
Mar 15, 2017

Ruth Prowse School of Art

With the death of Ruth Prowse in 1967, her Mansion Property “the Retreat” located on  Birkdale Avenue, 5 Elson Rd, ...

Residence, 115 Charles Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria
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Jul 14, 2011

Residence, 115 Charles Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989. The Street Name has since been chang...

Anton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
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Jul 14, 2011

Anton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989.This house dating from 1938 was built for ...

House Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
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Jul 14, 2011

House Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg

The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom,...

General Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
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Jul 14, 2011

General Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof

Home to General Jan Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals...

Musgrove road, Berea
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Sep 02, 2011

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...

Melrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
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Jul 14, 2011

Melrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria

George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful coa...

House Preller, Hartebeesport
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Jul 14, 2011

House Preller, Hartebeesport

Gustav Preller was a well-known journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied...

Kruger House Museum
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Jul 14, 2011

Kruger House Museum

Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did no...