Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre

The Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre Complex, often abbreviated as ICC Durban, is a large events facility located in the city centre of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

It is named after 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of the African National Congress, Inkosi Albert Luthuli.

Opened by former president Nelson Mandela in 1997, the Durban ICC was South Africa’s first International Convention Centre and has played a pioneering role in attracting international events to Durban since its inception.

[1] Discussions in the city of Durban on the merits of a major convention centre date back to the 1960s.

After consultations by the whites-only municipal authorities with unrepresented political groupings in 1993, construction commenced in 1994.

View of the ICC from the adjoining Hilton Hotel