Muizenberg Heritage

24/09/2026

Firing of the cannon at Het Posthuys on Heritage Day ☄️
(Video courtesy of Tessa Moore)

24/09/2026

23/09/2026

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

This Heritage Day, we invite you to Het Posthuys in Muizenberg for a morning of art, food, stories and Indigenous knowledge.

This gathering has come together through the care and effort of Bi’a Kingsley Saralina and Provincial Chief Cedric Schnell. Thank you both for making space for people to meet, share what they know and celebrate the living heritage of this area.

We honour Kai Bi’a Hennie van Wyk, our great leader of the Gorachouqua Tribe. The Gorachouqua Tribe and the Gri-Guriqua |Xam Research Institute are part of this conversation, celebrating the knowledge and traditions that keep our heritage alive.

Mak1one (Maxwell Southgate) will create an artwork live on canvas. Kingsley will share Indigenous food and potjie preparation, alongside a herb display, herbal tea and storytelling. There will be time to talk, ask questions and learn from one another.

Cups of herbal tea will be complimentary. Coffee will be available, and packaged herbal products will be available to purchase. The Heritage Day cannon firing is scheduled for 12:00.

You don’t need to know anyone to come along. Bring your family, a friend or simply your curiosity. Heritage belongs in the conversations we have today as much as in the stories handed down to us.

𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟰 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
From 09:30
𝗛𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘆𝘀
182 Main Rd, Muizenberg

We’d love to see you there.

23/09/2026

In 1977, the world surf tour comes to South Africa and the final event of the SA Pro Contest Circuit runs at Umhlanga Rocks, north of Durban. Zigzag Surfing Lifestyle Magazine reports that ‘thousands of young, foxy, tanga-clad ladies’ request autographs from the surfing stars.

Prior to the final matchup between the male surfers, the women’s surf contest, a single heat, paddles out. It is called the ‘comedy interlude’ in the press.

A little over four decades later, Melissa A. Volker watches the women’s surfing Gold Medal Match at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. South African surfer Bianca Buitendag is competing against USA’s Carissa Moore and wins the first ever Olympic surfing medal for South Africa. Thinking about the challenges South African women had to overcome to charge the waves, Melissa wonders who paved the way for Buitendag. She decides to find out. Her debut work of non-fiction Chasing Waves chronicles the journey and tells the story of the remarkable women who have defined the local surfing scene.

Join Melissa at the Muizenberg Literary Heritage Festival on Saturday 26 September at 10h30. Book tickets on Quicket - search under Muizenberg Heritage.

22/09/2026

Muizenberg and False Bay have long inspired writers and the Muizenberg Literary Heritage Festival allows some of these authors to explain what inspires them to write about this magnificent bay and the diverse community gathered along its shores.

The Muizenberg Literary Heritage festival is an annual event held by Muizenberg Heritage, which focuses on writers who live in the Muizenberg area or who have written about it. This year the line-up features novelists, poets, researchers and a cartoonist and will be held at Rhodes Cottage on Saturday, 26 September.

This year we’re excited to announce that Daily Maverick cartoonist, Carlos Amato will be participating. Carlos loves drawing in Muizenberg and says, “Muizenberg seems to point towards Cape Town’s better self and the city it could yet become: a place that is open, authentic, eccentric and democratic.”

Book for Carlos’s talk at 3.30pm on Saturday on Quicket - search under Muizenberg Heritage

19/09/2026

Surfing legends joined us at the opening of the ‘Surfing - a Living Heritage at Muizenberg’ exhibition at Het Posthuys last night. Pictured here are Nicky Hough of the Muizenberg Surfers Corner Surf Club, 60s women’s surfing pioneer and Springbok Sally Bekker (Sturrock), and Peter Wright, owner of the Corner Surf Shop.

15/09/2026

SOLD OUT!
Treasured Gardens and Trophy Homes on Towers and Upper Towers - walking tour and tea on Saturday 10 October at 10h00

Professor James Gill acquired a large estate north of the Camp Ground on the slopes of Muizenberg Peak in 1881, and increased its size with further purchases in 1889. The property had a stream running through it and a quarry (serviced by a railway siding) that gave him a substantial income, and this was supplemented by the establishment of a school at his home, Muizenberg House. His property, and the adjoining farm owned by JPF Kirsten, remained largely undeveloped until 1912 when the Colonial Orphan Chamber and Trust Company acquired substantial portions west of Main Road and began to offer plots for sale. Today this neighbourhood’s principal artery is Towers/Upper Towers Road, and our tour explores its magnificent architecture, secret gardens, and the remarkable personalities who called it home. We have exclusive access to Braeside, a fine Cape Mediterranean home built in 1923, the secret clivia garden of Art Deco Brigton & Carterton (which will be in full bloom), and will hear about the strange “sack people” of The Towers, the great Victorian pile of the Park Hotel, and the remarkable woman who armed Helen Suzman with the information with which she terrified the members of Parliament.

Our tour will end with tea, coffee and cake at Braeside, where participants will be able to enjoy views over Muizenberg and False Bay to Hangklip.

Our tour is strictly limited to 20 participants, and the price includes tea, coffee and cake.

Cost: R250 for members (book at [email protected]) and R350 for non-members (book on Quicket – search under Muizenberg Heritage)

Tour duration: 2 hours (10h00 to 12h00)

Meet outside 11 Upper Towers Road at 09h45.

14/09/2026

PICNIC AND PROSE

This year we are launching a picnic with the annual Literary Festival at Rhodes Cottage on 26 September.
There'll be plenty happening inside the museum and something delicious happening in the garden!
Bring your blanket and drinks and enjoy our bags of scrumptiousness - available from 11.00am
You can enjoy your picnic between talks, during the lunch break or even take it home with you!
The menu has two (very generous) options and the cost is R150 per person
Tickets are limited so get yours soon at
https://www.quicket.co.za/events/358355-picnic-and-prose/
There will also be tea and coffee on sale on the day.

13/09/2026

Our Magical Muizenberg Village tour group was lucky enough to be invited into three magnificent Muizenberg homes yesterday ❤️