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Life Care Special Health Services (Pty) Ltd.

In 1989 the four erven of the New Kings Hotel were consolidated into Erf 89828 (D.T. 13515).

This was further consolidated with erven 89825 and 89826 to form Erf 89921 which was sold on
13 June 1990 to Life Care Special Health Services (Pty) Ltd. (D.T. 33651) Life Care continued

to run the New Kings with the Majestic (which they called Mountain Heights) as homes for
physically and mentally challenged persons.

In 1998, the Department of Social Welfare, under the new government, withdrew the bulk of the
subsidy, and of the 236 patients (New Kings and Majestic) only 75 were eligible to receive the

government subsidy. This led to many patients being moved to other premises. With increased

costs and reduced subsidies, Life Care then built a wing onto the Conradie Hospital for the
remaining patients, and looked to sub-dividing and selling off the land on which the New Kings

stood for development purposes.

The Majestic Hotel

Erven 89819/20/22

The property on which the Majestic Hotel stands was, like the Kings, part of the Deed of Grant

made in 1818 to the Cape of Good Hope Fishing, Whaling and Sealing Co. The first recorded

existence of a hotel on the site was Holloway’s Hotel. It was run by John Bernard Holloway who
came from a family of hoteliers. Either his uncle or cousin (not verified) was a hotel keeper,

named Edward Holloway, and John named his daughter, Anna Maria, after Edward’s wife who
died in 1904 at her son’s hotel named Holloway’s Hotel, in Gordon’s Bay.

John Bernard Holloway died at the young age of 49 in his hotel in Kalk Bay on the 30 January
1881. His wife pre-deceased him and he was survived by his two daughters Anna Maria (aged

22) and Henrietta Maria (aged 17). The hotel operated from circa 1870, as mention of buildings

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