The KwaZulu-Natal Amafa and Research Institute (The Institute) is the provincial heritage resources authority (PHRA) for KwaZulu-Natal. Amafa, the predecessor to The Institute, was established as a statutory body in terms of the KZN Heritage Act of 1997, replaced by the KZN Heritage Act of 2008. The Institute became the official PHRA on the 14 December 2018 when the new KwaZulu-Natal Amafa and Research Institute Act (5 of 2018) was Gazetted.

The new Council of The Institute was appointed by the Premier of KZN, and will take up office in 2019. The Institute fell under the portfolio of the MEC for Cultural Matters (Arts & Culture) from April 2019 and is funded through a grant from the Legislature through the same department.

The Institute has offices in Pietermaritzburg (Head Office), and Ulundi and manages several major heritage projects such as the Isandlwana & Rorke’s Drift Battlefields, Border Cave archaeological site and the KwaZulu Cultural Museum.

• is current keeper of Archaeological Research progress report, August 1986 (None)
• is current keeper of A report on the archaeological and historical investigation of Mgungundlovu, King Dingane kaSenzangakhona's capital from 1829 to 1839 for the period 1 July 1986 to 30 June 1987 (Final report on excavations, 1 Jul…)
• is current keeper of Excavation plan (Excavation plan extracted from 198…)
• is current keeper of Map of Dingaan's Kraal -Mgungundlovu (Map of Dingaan's Kraal (Mgungundlo…)
• is current keeper of Isigodlo area, section A (None)
• is current keeper of Diagram of excavations from Rawlinson 1986 progress report (Diagram from p.3 of Rawlinson's 19…)
• is current keeper of Isigodlo area, section A (Diagram of isigodlo area, section …)
• is current keeper of Hut 7 (Diagram of floor of hut 7 from Cro…)
• is current keeper of Nkosinkulu's grave (A stone monument that marks the al…)