[spotlight] In Cape Town between the Liesbeek and Black Rivers, Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital's original building - dating from around 1770 - cuts an imposing silhouette. One of the area's oldest surviving homesteads, it is three storeys high, light pink with a steeply pitched roof and one tall turret flanked by dormers. Around it shrubs are neatly trimmed, lilies bloom in winter-wet soil, and guinea fowl chase around on lawns.
