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Ibeka, Simonstown
21 April 2026
The property was purchased in 1817 by PJ Truter, the local customs collector, who probably built its dwelling. In 1868 i...
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Sarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
21 March 2026
The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children has a vision to create a safe and secure society and a human rights ...
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Koopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
27 February 2026
The land was granted at the turn of the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Stel to a rich merchant, Reynier ...
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Nkandla, KZN
15 January 2026
Nkandla is a Town in the uThungulu District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the seat of the Nkandla Local Municipa...
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Bishopscourt, Cape Town
9 January 2026
Set right against the slopes of Table Mountain in the Constantia Valley, Bishopscourt gives new meaning to the term ‘lea...
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Tokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
29 December 2025
The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, Within two months, had sold it on to Andries Teubes, who probabl...
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Ruth Prowse School of Art
9 December 2025
With the death of Ruth Prowse in 1967, her Mansion Property “the Retreat” located on Birkdale Avenue, 5 Elson Rd, ...
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Old House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
20 June 2025
The Old House Museum in eThekwini offers a captivating journey through time, showcasing the rich heritage and stories of...
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Mandela House
6 March 2025
The Mandela House Museum in Soweto is housed in what was once the home of Nelson Mandela, the World's most famous ...
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Mill House, Boundary Road, Newlands
20 February 2025
This double-storey mill and private residence was erected by Jacob Letterstedt in the 1840's. It now forms an integral p...
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Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape
11 October 2024
Declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Government, Mqhekezweni is a very significant early great place o...
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Valkenburg Hospital, Observatory
22 September 2023
The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek...
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Redelinghuys, Cape West Coast
3 August 2023
Lying but two hours' drive from Cape Town, Redelinghuys is known as the potato Capital of the Sandveld. It lies on the R...
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Bo-Kaap Museum
25 April 2023
Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter, the Bo-K...
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Sammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
29 April 2022
The Sammy Marks Museum is a Victorian Mansion called Zwartkoppies Hall, situated about 23km outside Pretoria. The 48-roo...
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Caledon Museum, Eastern Cape
14 April 2022
The Caledon Museum is split into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian Hou...
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Tradouw Pass
4 February 2022
This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and rugged mountain drives, in the Langeberg! (This Pass is in the Top 20 ...
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Leeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
17 January 2022
Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stan...
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Alphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town
6 September 2021
The Alphen Estate was granted to Theunis van Schalkwyk in 1714. Its Historic Homestead is a square plan double-storey ma...
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Jan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
3 September 2021
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...
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Louw House Museum, Sutherland
12 February 2021
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...
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Welgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
5 October 2020
In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven...
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Grootvaderbosch Farm, Heidelberg
26 August 2020
The Strawberry Hill Farmhouse (now a guest house) was built in the late 1800’s by Thomas Dunbar. Thomas Dunbar was a ren...
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Belvidere, Knysna
31 July 2020
Captain Thomas Henry Duthie emigrated to the Cape in 1826. In 1830 he visited Knysna, where he was the guest of George R...
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Albertyn’s House, Simonstown
6 May 2020
The structure was erected in 1799-1801 by Alexander Tennant, in Simonstown. It was declared a National Monument und...
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Agricultural Publications Building, Vermeulen Street, Pretoria
22 April 2020
The Building was erected in about 1914 to accommodate the premises of E.P. Grant, a general merchant. It was declared a ...
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Admiralty House, Simonstown
21 April 2020
The Building dates from the mid-18th Century and its ownership was transferred to the Admiralty in 1814. Rear-Admiral Ja...
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Parsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
27 November 2019
This is probably the oldest surviving house in Port Elizabeth and was built by Rev Francis McClelland of the Church of E...
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Woolsack House, Rondebosch
18 April 2019
Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive has a...
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Yokohama, Muizenburg
18 April 2019
On Muizenberg Main Road, you’ll find a historical house called “Yokohama”, it was constructed in 1906 out of paper maché...
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Posthuys
18 April 2019
Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a loo...
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Hatfield Street 139, Gardens
18 April 2019
Declared a Provinsial Heritage Site, like so many of the lovely old houses on Hatfield Street, in Cape Town!
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Anton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
18 April 2019
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989.This house dating from 1938 was built for ...
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House Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
18 April 2019
The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom,...
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Residence, 115 Charles Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria
18 April 2019
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989. The Street Name has since been chang...
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Musgrove road, Berea
18 April 2019
Click on image to enlarge Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 July 1984. This is a double-sto...
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General Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
18 April 2019
Home to General Jan Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals...
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Melrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
18 April 2019
George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful coa...
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House Preller, Hartebeesport
18 April 2019
Gustav Preller was a well-known journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied...
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Kruger House Museum
18 April 2019
Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did no...
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