This landmark property is significant for its unique architecture and impressive garden setting, which combines traditional Portuguese and Madeiran influences. It is distinguished by its typically Portuguese house and Madeiran Garden, both embodying the cultural heritage of the many Madeiran Portuguese who emigrated to South Africa, making a significant contribution to market gardens and other fields. The probable contribution of Mozambican mineworkers adds further interest to this heritage site, which would be highly regarded even in Madeira.

St. Mary’s Cathedral is a historical landmark of the old Johannesburg city centre.  The Cathedral has a long history as a place of worship and is the mother-church of all Anglican churches in Johannesburg.  During the apartheid period, St. Mary’s stood out as a bastion of the struggle.

Known by his supporters as “Lion of Azania”, Mothopeng was a teacher, intellectual, political prisoner, and stalwart of the Pan–African Congress (PAC). His political activism spanned a turbulent half-century of resistance to white domination, from the early 1940s until his death in 1990. Much of his political and personal life centred around his home which he shared with his wife Urbania from 1941, in an area that became a hot- bed of struggle.