The V&A Waterfront sits at the foot of Table Mountain. It occupies a working harbour that has welcomed ships since 1860, when Prince Alfred tipped the first load of stone into the sea to begin the breakwater. The dock that bears his name was so busy when it opened in 1871 that ships queued for a week waiting for a berth.

Sailors once called this the Tavern of the Seas: a halfway stop between Europe and Asia where they could take on fresh water and reset chronometers at the Time-Ball Tower, the second such structure in the world after Greenwich. The Suez Canal severed that link. By the 1970s, highways and container ships had finished the job.

VoiceMap's tours tell the story of how Cape Town and its harbour were reunited, tracing the breakwater convicts, the Zeitz MOCAA's grain-silo origins and the cobblestone path that follows the original shoreline.