Private student rooms on an old country estate, with a shuttle to the University of Zululand every half hour.
Every room is private, furnished, and cleaned once a week.
Solar and batteries carry the whole estate through load-shedding.
Rent covers Wi-Fi, power, water, laundry and the shuttle. Applying takes ten minutes.
What we promise
For students, and the people who worry about them.
University is hard enough without cold showers, dead Wi-Fi and a taxi home in the dark.
Brackenmoor is a 1920s farm homestead in the coastal bush outside Mtunzini. The old house, with its wide veranda and thick white walls, is now the study hall and dining room. The 212 private rooms are new, set in the gardens behind it. There's a guard at the gate all night, a shuttle to campus all day, and a house manager who knows your name by the second week.
The rooms
No. 01 · 148 rooms
Your own lockable room with a three-quarter bed, a proper desk and a wardrobe. You share a bathroom and kitchen with three others on your corridor.
From R 5 400 a month, everything included
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No. 02 · 40 rooms
A larger room with your own bathroom and a kitchenette. For final years, postgrads, and anyone who studies best with the door shut.
From R 7 200 a month, everything included
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No. 03 · 12 apartments
Two private bedrooms with a shared lounge, kitchen and bathroom. Bring a friend, or we'll match you with someone on your course.
From R 4 500 a month each, everything included
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It's the night before a deadline and the grid goes down. Press and hold the button to start load-shedding, and watch what happens on our side of the wall.
Grid power · Mtunzini
100%
Keyboard: hold Space or Enter
Life here
07:10
It leaves the gate every half hour from 06:30 and reaches the KwaDlangezwa campus in ten minutes. The last one home is at 22:30.
14:00
Sixty desks, quiet rules, and plugs at every seat. During exams we put out coffee at midnight.
19:30
Supper's done in the shared kitchen, your door is shut, and the Wi-Fi reaches every corner of the room.
23:00
Corridors go quiet from ten on weeknights. The guard walks the grounds every hour until sunrise.
Costs
The rent on your lease is the full amount, every month. No prepaid meter to feed, no laundry tokens, and no "admin fee" in February.
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At Brackenmoor
Students and parents
“I wrote my whole stats assignment during Stage 6 and only found out there was load-shedding from the group chat.”
“We live 600 km away. Knowing there's a guard at the gate and a shuttle home at night is why I said yes.”
“My deposit came back eleven days after I moved out. I didn't have to chase anyone.”
Sample reviews written for this demo
Questions
Parents are welcome to ask too. Write to rooms@brackenmoor.example and a person replies the same day.
The estate is fenced, with one gate and a guard on duty day and night. Students open the gate and their own corridor with a fingerprint. Cameras cover the grounds, never the rooms.
Yes. Our two-bed apartments are NSFAS accredited and we bill NSFAS directly. For bursaries, send us your sponsor letter and we invoice them each month.
One month's rent, paid by EFT into a trust account in the estate's name, never in cash and never to a person. You get it back within 14 days of moving out, with a list of any deductions.
Ten months, February to November, to match the academic year. Stay for December and January at half rent if you need to.
Yes. Visitors sign in at the gate with ID and leave by 22:00 on weeknights. Parents can stay over in a guest room in the old house for R 350 a night.
Mtunzini village is five minutes away for shops and the beach, and Richards Bay is half an hour. On Saturdays the shuttle runs to both. Hluhluwe-iMfolozi is an hour up the road when family visits.
Please do. Viewings run every day at 10:00 and 15:00, and we do video calls for families who are far away.
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We reply the same day with what's available and the exact monthly price. Your room is held for seven days while you sort out funding.