The BA Building has documented the history of the community in the form of a glass plane that runs through the entrances, both left and right. This is a good way to showcase and reveal the history of what had happened during a tough time.
Jan Viviers and his family were Kayamandi’s first non-black residents.
In the audio clip below, Jan explains the initial reasoning for wanting to move to Kayamandi, which started in 1985, during apartheid’s most violent period.
Victor Myataza is one of the oldest residents of Kayamandi and its former mayor. He was instrumental in the urban planning of the Kayamandi township, in canvassing for the retention of its land as well as development of its housing programme.…