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Asking price: ZAR 11,000,000
Approx : 609,230 USD
Athlone Park, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
18 bedroom Guest Lodge with breathtaking ocean views
Exclusive sole mandate!! What a unique and rare opportunity! This amazing 18 en-suite bedroom guest house, located on the well-known Amanzimtoti coastal ridge, complete with breathtaking ocean views across the sapphire coastline, is in your grasp.
The fully equipped well-maintained guesthouse and kitchen features in short, a charming foyer, spacious reception area, boardroom/conference room, 18 en-suite bedrooms, catering kitchen, dining room with a licensed bar, covered patio, sea-view deck, splash pool and it stretches fully over two stands that are parallel to the coastline.
Conveniently located, this property is secured with full perimeter walling, ample off-street parking, entrance control and electric fencing. It is a well-established landmark in the area and offers a true and magnificent experience of the ideal getaway to its guests.
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Family Sea Facing Room
Room Description
The main bedroom has 1x king size bed and the second bedroom has 2x single beds. Bathroom is en-suite with both a bath and shower. Sea Facing. Air-conditioning, tea & coffee making facilities, minibar, DStv,TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided.
Amenities
Standard Sea Facing Room
Room Description
Standard Sea Facing Room Includes a queen size bed. Bathroom is en-suite with a shower. Air-conditioning, tea & coffee, mini bar, DStv, TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided. Lovely Sea View.
Amenities
Standard Family Room
Room Description
Spacious room with a double size bed, En-suite bathroom with bath and shower. Lounge area with small dining area. Air-conditioning, tea & coffee making facilities, Minibar, DStv, TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided.
Amenities
Spacious Standard Room
Room Description
Spacious room with a double size bed, En-suite bathroom with bath and shower. Lounge area with small dining area. Air-conditioning, tea & coffee making facilities, Minibar, DStv, TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided.
Amenities
Standard Budget Room
Room Description
Quaint rooms with a double size bed. En-suite bathroom with shower. Air-conditioning, tea & coffee making facilities, Minibar, DStv, TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided.
Amenities
Standard Budget Room Sea Facing
Room Description
Quaint Budget Room with Sea View. Bathroom has a bath only. Opens up onto the upper level sundeck. Air-con, tea & coffee making facilities, Minibar, DSTV, TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided.
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Standard Budget Twin Room
Room Description
Standard Budget Room with two single beds. The bathroom has a shower.Air-conditioning, tea & coffee making facilities, Minibar, DStv,TV, standard linen and bathroom towels provided.
Amenities
Amanzimtoti
Amanzimtoti, locally nicknamed Toti, and officially renamed to eManzimtoti, is a coastal town just south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Situated along the Sapphire Coast, the town is well known for its warm climate and numerous beaches, and is a popular tourist destination, particularly with surfers.
Etymology
According to local legend, when the Zulu king Shaka led his army down the south coast on a raid against the Pondos in 1828, he rested on the banks of a river. When drinking the water, he exclaimed "Kanti amanzi amtoti" (isiZulu: "So the water is sweet"). The river came to be known as Amanzimtoti ("Sweet Waters"). The Zulu word for "sweet" is actually mnandi, but, as Shaka's mother had the name Nandi, he invented the word mtoti to replace mnandi out of respect not to wear out her name. Locals frequently refer to the town as "Toti". In 2009 the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Geographical Names Committee recommended changing the town's name to aManzamtoti/eManzamtoti.
History
Precolonial period
King Shaka visited the area whilst on a raid down to Pondoland towards the end of his reign (1816 to 1828). When Shaka stopped to rest in the area, he had his personal attendant collect water from a nearby stream. This water was presented to King Shaka in a calabash. After drinking the water he exclaimed "Kanti amanz'amtoti" (Zulu for "So the water is sweet"). Extensions of the legend tell that King Shaka had sat under a large wild fig tree to drink the water, or that he used to meet local indunas (chiefs) under a specific fig tree. The exact tree is unknown; one tree laying claim to the distinction fell down in March 1972, and another fell down in June 1981.
Late colonial history
Dick King passed through the Amanzimtoti area on his way to Grahamstown in 1842 in order to request help for the besieged British garrison at Port Natal (now the Old Fort, Durban). The route that Dick King took through Amanzimtoti later became a road named Kingsway.
In 1847 Dr Newton Adams moved from Umlazi (where he had established a mission station in 1836) to Amanzimtoti and started a new mission station. Dr Adams died in 1851, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent Rev. Rood to Amanzimtoti in 1853 with the express object of opening up a school. Adams Mission Church was built inland of Amanzimtoti in 1852, and Adams College was built in 1853. The college was first named "Amanzimtoti Institute" and was later renamed after Dr. Adams in the 1930s.
Different accounts identify the first colonial-era house in the Amanzimtoti area, with one reference claiming a house on the south side of the Amanzimtoti River as the oldest house and another claiming a house to the north of the river as the oldest. The "first house" in Amanzimtoti, known as Klein Frystaat ("Little Free State"), was owned by Howard Wright and was situated "on the north side of the back of the old Anglican Church" on Adams Road. The house was demolished in 1984. However, the "best guess" for the first house built in Amanzimtoti is 1895, and it may have been on the "headland" south of Amanzimtoti Lagoon.
A photograph of a rowing-boat on the Amanzimtoti River taken in 1889 shows the banks of the river vegetated with Phragmites australis, Phoenix reclinata and coastal bush. However a later traveler in 1911 claims to have been the first person to take a camera up the river, but also describes "reed-covered isles" and "overhanging trees", and his photographs show Phoenix reclinata growing on the banks.
The railway line from Durban to Isipingo was extended to Park Rynie from 1896 onwards, and the first train passed through Amanzimtoti in 1897. This train left Durban on 22 February at 7:55 AM and consisted of a Dübs & Company locomotive with two goods trucks, two passenger trucks, and a brake-van. There was a tin shanty siding at Amanzimtoti in 1897 which served as a station. The route from the Amanzimtoti train station to Adams Mission was named Adams Road. The first hotel in Amanzimtoti was built in 1898 to cater for holidaymakers, some of whom came from as far afield as Johannesburg on specially organised trains. The first hotel was built of wood and iron, but burnt down in May 1899. Amanzimtoti had its first stationmaster in 1902.
1900s
In 1902 Mrs K. Swafton visited Amanzimtoti and reported that the area had 1 hotel, 3 or 4 houses and 12 huts on the lagoon (clustered on the shore between the lagoon and Chain Rocks). The huts were made of wood and iron or motor-car packing cases and served as holiday bungalows, and two of the houses had been built by the Department of Native Affairs for resident officers. The 5th house in Amanzimtoti was built on the corner of Adams Road and Ross Street in 1908 by the Reinbach family, who came from Cape Town.
The Kynoch factory for the manufacture of explosives was built in Arklow, Ireland in 1895. Mr Arthur Chaimberlain of Kynochs visited South Africa in 1907 to find a place to start another factory. 1,400 acres of land were bought at Umbogintwini, and on 24 October 1907, a group of Irishmen (23 workers and their families) from Arklow sailed from Southampton to work as factory hands at the new Kynoch's factory in Umbogintwini.These people lived in Amanzimtoti and Isipingo before the village of Umbogintwini took shape. One of these "Irishmen" (Harry Purves) was in fact originally from Durban, where he was born to Scottish immigrants.
In 1910 Toti had "a dozen families" (according to Bill Bailey), and the Toti Hotel had 50 rooms. In 1911 Toti was an hour's ride from Durban by train, and a photograph shows a boat race held on the lagoon. The Amanzimtoti River was navigable for 3.5 miles by rowing boat.
In the 1920s, a steam train, the Port Shepstone Express, passed through the town once a day, to and from Durban. At around this time there was a Zulu kraal where the original Amanzimtoti Primary School was later built. One of the bathing areas in the sea for holiday-makers was a gully with rocks sheltering it on either side. Mrs Miller (née Reinbach) and her husband Douglas Miller built a bungalow near this site in the early 1920s, and a tea room existed there in 1923. The two Reinbach brothers and a Mr Grainger were often called upon to rescue bathers, and it was decided to use the gully, and place suspended chains across it, to provide a safe area for bathers. The chains were put up sometime before 1926, and this place was then called Chain Rocks. Paul Henwood May moved to Amanzimtoti in 1922, and built several colonial-style homes (made from wood, with an iron roof and a front verandah).
Many people moved to Amanzimtoti during the Great Depression, attracted by the lower cost-of-living compared to the cities. Amanzimtoti was granted local administration in 1934, with a population of 774. One of the "highlights" of the 1930s was the arrival of Gracie Fields, a popular singer at the time. Electricity was introduced to the town in 1938, after being voted in by a small majority after Alan Allen campaigned on the benefits of electricity. Telephone lines were installed in 1945, and the manually-operated telephone-exchange was located at the railway station. Running water was introduced in 1949 by Olaf Bjorseth, the first mayor of Amanzimtoti; prior to this, residents used to collect rainwater from the roofs of their houses. The first petrol pump in the town was owned and operated by Mr and Mrs Silverstone, who also ran a store called "The Silverstones". The first post office was situated on the railway station, next door to Mrs Morton's Tea Room. Mrs North was the first post-mistress. The post office and telephone exchange moved to the Telephone Exchange building in Bjorseth Crescent in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Amanzimtoti offered refuge to many Middle Eastern and British evacuees during the Second World War, many of whom lived in holiday cottages and in private homees. When a school was started at Toti Town Hall, Dr Frickle paid for two teachers' salaries out of money he made at his clinic selling "No 9s" (red pills "from the army"), which he purportedly prescribed "for everything". Miss Burns (who ran the Guides) held the first Arbour Day in Natal, and along with 16 Guides, planted 60 Erythrina lysistemon trees along Beach Road. These trees "blazed red" when in flower and were known as the "glory of Beach Road"; for this reason, the Coral Tree is included in the crest of Amanzimtoti. These trees were however cut down in the 1950s when Beach Road was widened and tarred.
The first newspapers to be produced in the town were attributed to Ivor language, and the first issue of The Observer was printed in July 1955. Before this, newspapers had been brought in by train from Durban. From 1957 to 1959, The Observer was replaced by a commercial weekly newspaper, the South Coast Courier. The Observer was again replaced, this time by the South Coast SUN, which Archie and Jenny Taylor started in 1970.
In 1961, the nearby settlements of Isipingo Rail and Isipingo Beach, which lie to the north of Amanzimtoti, were incorporated into the Borough of Amanzimtoti, up until July 1972, when Isipingo gained its own Town Board.
Toti's largest building, then known as Sanlam Centre, was constructed during 1972 to 1973. It originally consisted of a shopping complex and a 25-storey block of flats, which to this day can accommodate 1,500 people.
Geography
However, the Greater eManzimtoti area comprises a larger area stretching from Isipingo in the north to Karridene in the south and KwaMakhutha to the west and includes areas such as Prospecton, Athlone Park, Umbogintwini, Doonside, Warner Beach, Winklespruit and Illovo Beach amongst others.
Culture and contemporary lifestyle
With its laid-back beach lifestyle, Amanzimtoti has become an attractive destination for commuters, retired people and holidaymakers alike. Today it is described as a bedroom community, one which is primarily residential in character, with many of its residents commuting to Durban daily.
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Private healthcare
Initially established in 1982 as a 25-bed clinic, Netcare Kingsway Hospital is the sole hospital serving the town of Amanzimtoti. Owned by Netcare Limited, it is now a 238-bed private hospital operating 24-hour emergency services. The hospital is located on Kingsway, just 2 km from Galleria Mall and 3 km from the Amanzimtoti CBD.
Public healthcare
Amanzimtoti Clinic is a government-funded municipal clinic operated by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, catering to residents' healthcare needs.
Transport
Rail
The Amanzimtoti Railway Station is situated on the South Coast Line, which is the main Metrorail commuter route between Durban in the north-east (via Umbogintwini) and Kelso in the south-west (via Kingsburgh).
Roads
Amanzimtoti is mainly reached via the N2, a major freeway running between Durban in the north and Port Shepstone in the south. Furthermore, it can also be reached from Kingsburgh and Athlone Park via the R102 (Kingsway; renamed to Andrew Zondo Road) which is the old coastal main route between Durban and Port Shepstone and via the M37 (Moss Kolnik Drive) from KwaMakhutha in the west.
Retail
Amanzimtoti functions as a service-orientated town being a hub for shopping and other services for surrounding communities south of Durban. There are two main retail nodes in the town including the Amanzimtoti Central Business District (CBD) and Arbour Town to the north.
Amanzimtoti includes a host of several shopping malls with the largest of these being the Galleria Mall in Arbour Town. Also found in the area are: Toti Centre (formerly known as Sanlam Centre), Toti Mall, Arbour Crossing and Seadoone Mall.
Wildlife
Amanzimtoti is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including Cape clawless otters, blue duiker and spotted ground-thrush. Vervet monkeys are common and can be seen throughout the suburban parts of the town and in the nature reserves.
Most of the wildlife can be found along the aManzimtoti River or in the coastal dune vegetation. A nature reserve was established along the banks of the river in 1965 called Ilanda Wilds. There is also a 'bird park' called Umdoni Bird Sanctuary along one of the tributaries of the aManzimtoti River. Other nature reserves and green areas include; Umbogavango, Vumbuka, and the Pipeline Coastal Park.
Recreation
Amanzimtoti was a borough in its own right from 1952 to 1996. It obtained a coat of arms from the College of Arms in November 1958, and registered it with the Natal Provincial Administration in April 1959.
The arms were : Barry wavy Argent and Azure, on a mount a coral tree proper within an orle of eleven coral flowers also proper (i.e. a coral tree surrounded by eleven coral flowers on a background of silver and blue wavy stripes).
The crest was an egret standing in a circle of coral flowers, and the motto Nitamur semper ad optima.
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