What is Houses of Parliament, Cape Town?
{{Infobox historic site | name = Houses of Parliament | image = Houses of Parliament (Cape Town).jpg | image_size = 275 | caption = The old assembly building viewed from the [[Company's Garden]] | location = [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]] | built = 1875&ndash;1884 | architects = [[Charles Freeman (architect)|Charles Freeman]], [[Henry Greaves]], [[Sir Herbert Baker]] | architecture = [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]], [[Cape Dutch architecture]] }} The '''Houses of Parliament''' of South Africa is in [[Cape Town]]. The building has three three main sections: the original building, completed in 1884, and others built in the 1920s and 1980s. The newer houses is where the [[National Assembly of South Africa|National Assembly]] (the lower house of the bicameral [[Parliament of South Africa]]) meet and the original building houses is where the [[National Council of Provinces]] (the upper house of Parliament) meet. The Houses of Parliament have been declared a National Heritage Site by the [[South African Heritage Resources Agency]] (SAHRA) and given grade 1 national heritage status, the highest grade set by SAHRA.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sahra.org.za/sahris/about/news/sa-parliament-declared-national-heritage-site |title=SA Parliament declared a National Heritage Site |publisher=[[South African Heritage Resources Agency]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530040856/http://www.sahra.org.za/sahris/about/news/sa-parliament-declared-national-heritage-site |archive-date=2018-05-30 |url-status=dead |access-date=2022-01-02 }}</ref> During the morning of 2 January 2022, a fire broke out in third-floor offices at the [[Parliament of South Africa|two legislative chambers]], the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Assembly barely visible as heavy cloud of smoke covers Parliament|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/live-fire-breaks-out-in-parliament-firefighters-battling-to-contain-blaze-20220102|