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Until 1975 NCT’s office was registered at the Union Co-operative’s headquarters in Dalton. In that year NCT appointed an administration manager to take over the ever-growing workload from the long-suffering Union Co-op staff who had been undertaking NCT’s administrative function until then. So it was decided the time had come for NCT to find its own home. The following year NCT moved its headquarters to 209 Burger Street, Pietermaritzburg, but in a very short time even those premises proved too cramped. An old house at 346 Burger Street was purchased. Situated in a garden, the house needed renovations and a sum of R500 was set aside to effect this work. On 1 June 1977 the staff relocated to the present headquarters. Very soon a vegetable garden was established at the rear of the property and on late afternoons employees could be seen watering the tomatoes and feeding hundreds of pigeons which lived in the surrounding trees and gardens. Alas! Soon this tranquility was shattered when changes in top management required the budding horticulturalists to make a greater commitment to work. The birds departed and the lettuce patch became part of a new parking lot for visitors. So much for change and progress!

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