North Coast - Kwa Zulu Natal

This is THE talest building, on the Zululand coast! Most buildings - especially in Richards Bay are a maximum of 3 floors - probably because the Bay looks to have risen from the sea and the soil is pretty sandy, and is unstable enough to exclude building anything taller than 3 stories.


When I started work (first job ever!) it was with a firm that occupied half of the second floor and the third floor. This side overlooks the busy centre of Empangeni and the far side has views across the Rugby Club, farm fields and towards Richards Bay (known locally as "The Bay!"

I worked for this firm for 10 years - give or take - then qualified as a Chartered Accountant and relocated to Sandton (Johannesburg) to work for 4 months - at ICL Computers - before I was knocked down and then retired on ill health pension. Strange times!

As you face the building from this side, I worked on the second floor (Ground, first then second) - end windows on the right - and the bosses worked on the third floor! From this side you looked over the town, then the cane fields towards Melmoth, and from the other side you overlooked Empangeni Rail, more cane fields then to Richards Bay.