The name KLOK (Afrikaans for 'clock') is a nod to the striking Art Deco building we call home. The building was built between 1929 and 1941 by Scottish-born architect, W.H. Grant, who was responsible for various local Art Deco gems like Mutual Heights in Darling street and across the way from KLK, Market House.
The square itself is much older, dating back to the 1600's when the colony citizens gathered here to buy fruit and vegetables (grown in the nearby Company Gardens) and to draw fresh water from its well.
It ha been a site of protest and reform: In 1834 the declaration of the Slavery Abolition Act was read here and in 1998 the Purple Rain protest against Apartheid took place here on the same cobbled stones laid in the 1600's.