Declarations

By virtue of the powers vested in Heritage Western Cape, as the provincial heritage resources authority for the province of the Western Cape, in terms of Section 27(2) of the National Heritage Resources Act, No. 25 of 1999, archaeological and palaeontological sites, unmarked burials, the landscape and natural features of cultural significance and structures situated on or at Hostel 33, Portion of Erf 13600, Lwandle, Strand and as reflected in the below schedule, are hereby formally protected under Section 27 of the Act bearing the provisions of Sections 34, 35 and 36 in mind.

In terms of Section 27 of the National Heritage Resources Act, No. 25 of 1999, Heritage Western Cape hereby declares, Hostel 33 on Portion of Erf 13600, Lwandle, Strand as fully described in the schedule, as a Provincial Heritage Site.

Schedule:
The demarcation of the Provincial Heritage Site is as follows:
Described in the SG Diagram No. 5108—86

Significance:
Hostel 33 forms part of the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum and illustrates how people lived within the migrant labour system. It represents an extraordinary spatial and social expression of resilience and oppression, which dominated the South African settlement morphology as part of an ‘‘apartheid’’ city.

The heritage significance of Hostel 33 is both historical and social on a broad provincial level. Its architecture nonetheless speaks volumes about its origins in the late nineteenth century and its role later in a repressive apartheid system in South Africa. Hostel 33 is both part of a spatial expression of a wider system of oppression as well as a representation of a system of managed oppression at a local level. The value of Hostel 33 lies in its representative and symbolic nature. Hostel 33 is of outstanding significance for the memorialisation and acknowledgement of migrant workers, their role and contribution to society.