Muizenberg Heritage

03/09/2026

The Surfing - a Living Heritage at Muizenberg exhibition opens on 19 September!

Explore 120 years of surf history at the new Muizenberg Heritage exhibition at Het Posthuys Museum. Share your photos, stories, and community feedback.

01/09/2026

🌊 Muizenberg’s waves have witnessed more than a century of change.

From the early days of surfing and the rise of Surfer’s Corner to the barriers created by apartheid, a new exhibition explores the people and stories behind the suburb’s surfing culture.

🏄 Step into Muizenberg’s surfing past. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/ckjb7yt3

30/08/2026

Surfing is intrinsic to the culture of Muizenberg and has been part of its history for at least 120 years. To understand Muizenberg is, in many ways, to understand the enduring place of surfing in the lives of its residents.

Visit Het Posthuys Museum (open weekends 10 to 3) to view a draft of the 'Surfing – a living Muizenberg Heritage' exhibition, which will be launched on Saturday 19 September.

26/08/2026

🏛️ Muizenberg’s rich history takes centre stage this Heritage Month.

From a walking tour through the historic Village to a new surfing exhibition, the Heritage Day cannon firing and a literary festival, there is plenty to explore throughout September.

📖Read more about what’s planned: https://tinyurl.com/yanumya9

23/08/2026

September is Heritage Month and Muizenberg Heritage plans an exciting program to celebrate the rich history and culture of the Muizenberg community.

On Saturday 12 September the Magical Muizenberg Village walking tour explores the architecture and personalities of this intriguing neighbourhood. The architectural fabric of the Village, dating mainly between 1900 and 1940, is remarkably intact – a result of its relative neglect for almost half a century, and investment in its regeneration at a time when Muizenberg was deeply unfashionable. Palmer Road was once the business centre of Muizenberg, and residents and visitors had a choice of where to buy their groceries, have shoes repaired, furniture upholstered, and even a milliner to provide the latest fashions in hats. But the Village has other surprising connections – to the whaling industry, the delivery of airmail in South Africa, the suffragette movement, and even to boere musiek!

Surfing is intrinsic to the culture of Muizenberg and has been part of its history for at least 120 years. To understand Muizenberg is, in many ways, to understand the enduring place of surfing in the lives of its residents. A draft of the 'Surfing – a living Muizenberg Heritage' exhibition will be launched on Saturday 19 September at Het Posthuys Museum. The exhibition is aimed at encouraging community feedback and will be open Saturday and Sundays from 10 am – 3pm for viewing.

Heritage Day, Thursday 24 September, will see the Cannon Association of South Africa once again firing the cannon outside Het Posthuys, as part of their cannon call-up system which will be staged across the Peninsula. Starting in Simonstown cannons will be fired at five-minute intervals into other parts of South Africa and the Het Posthuys cannon will be fired just before noon.

The third Muizenberg Literary Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday 26 September, at Rhodes Cottage, Main Road. The festival celebrates writers who write in Muizenberg or write about Muizenberg, and aims to promote Muizenberg's rich literary heritage. This year’s festival features authors, poets and cartoonists: Michael Cope will speak about how Muizenberg encourages chance encounters, and how this has influenced his writing; Melissa Volker will launch her book Chasing the Waves which tells the story of South African women in surfing; Serai Dowling will reflect on why blue spaces that bring strangers together matter just as much as our city’s infrastructure; cartoonist Carlos Amato speaks about how satire can combat shameless power and the privatisation of truth; and four local poets will read and discuss poems inspired by our neighbourhood’s landscape, people and history.

Further information available at https://www.muizenbergheritage.com/events or [email protected]

Tickets can be purchased on Quicket – search for ‘Muizenberg Heritage’.

21/08/2026

Our 3rd annual Heritage Literary Festival will be happening next month! Get your tickets here: https://www.quicket.co.za/organisers/75147-muizenberg

11/08/2026

A huge thank you to the Traffic Department and Muizenberg Improvement District for their assistance in making this event a success!

08/08/2026

Today!

Save the date! The historic cannon at Het Posthuys will be fired on Saturday 8 August to commemorate the Battle of Muizenberg. Join us to hear more about the battle which brought the French Revolutionary Wars to our shores, see the cannon being fired, and enjoy refreshments. For more information contact us on [email protected]

28/05/2026

This monument stands in the grounds of “Bagatelle”, which is situated in Bryn Road behind Mez Wallach. Does anyone know what it commemorates and when it was erected?

10/05/2026

Sometimes historic buildings hide in plain site. A walk down Gill Road from Boyes Drive will reveal the back of the 1912 Bay View Hotel, built after Henry Magor’s hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1904. Magor’s hotel was the first to have waterborne sewerage in Muizenberg and the Wynberg Times stated that it compared favourably with “the best hotels in Cape Town itself”, so the fire and Magor’s subsequent bankruptcy was a great loss to the burgeoning municipality.

Today the gable end is pushed against the 1930s addition to the hotel, which was apparently designed by the eminent architect Brian Mansergh.