KwaMuhle occupies the building from which Durban administered racialized labor control.
Its exhibitions turn an abstract system into records, rooms and lived consequences.
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Durban experience
Visit KwaMuhle Museum
Enter the former Native Administration Department and examine how Durban controlled Black labor, movement and housing under segregation and apartheid.
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The experience
Read Durban's labor-control system inside its former headquarters
Journeys
Journeys through Durban
Experience FAQ
Visit KwaMuhle Museum
Q01What was this building?
It housed Durban's Native Administration Department, which enforced systems controlling Black labor and urban residence.
Q02How does it connect to the food walk?
The museum explains the racial and labor systems that shaped the same city whose markets and kitchens the journey encounters outside.
Plan with Alex
Include KwaMuhle Museum
Travel from Johannesburg into wildlife country, follow the warm coast toward the Cape, or let spring flowers lead you north into the Kalahari.
We begin with the part of South Africa you most want to feel, then give the country enough time to change around you.
I want you to follow leopard tracks at dawn, swim in the warm Indian Ocean, meet artists and historians in the cities, then watch the last light turn the Kalahari dunes red. South Africa can hold all of this in one journey.
Alex
Journey designer