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Buffalo Bay Beach, Goukamma Nature Reserve
Place
Feb 06, 2020

Buffalo Bay Beach, Goukamma Nature Reserve

Buffalo Bay Beach is also affectionately named Buffelsbaai and you’ll find it in the Goukamma Nature Reserve just a few ...

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Buffalo River, East London
Place
Feb 06, 2020

Buffalo River, East London

Visitors flying into the city will cross the Buffalo River on their trip into the city from the East London Airport. Ho...

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Goukamma Nature Reserve, Sedgefield
Place
Feb 06, 2020

Goukamma Nature Reserve, Sedgefield

In the heart of the scenic Garden Route on the Cape south coast, near the mouth of the Goukamma River, lies a secret hid...

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Louw House Museum, Sutherland
Place
Feb 06, 2020

Louw House Museum, Sutherland

A literacy Museum in the house where two famous Afrikaans poets and writer brothers, N.P van Wyk Louw and W.E.G. Louw we...

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Feb 05, 2020

Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came

Wachira Waheire was 25 years old when he was thrown into Kenya's notorious torture cells for possessing a poster saying ...

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Biography
Feb 05, 2020

Matthews Mabelane

On 15 February 1977 Mr Matthews Mabelane,aged 23,fell to his death from the tenth floor of John Vorster Square,Johannesb...

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Leipoldtville, West Coast
Place
Feb 05, 2020

Leipoldtville, West Coast

Northeast of Elands Bay en route to Graafwater, lies the quaint village of Leipoldtville next to the Langvleirivier. The...

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Graafwater
Place
Feb 05, 2020

Graafwater

The Heerenlogement cave which was used by travelers as overnight accommodation in the 17th and 18th centuries is 25 km f...

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Elands Bay, Western Cape Province
Place
Feb 05, 2020

Elands Bay, Western Cape Province

Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bobbejaan Mountain lies this hotspot for surfers around the world.

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Lambert's Bay
Place
Feb 05, 2020

Lambert's Bay

Welcome to the seafood hotspot of the West Coast! Lambert’s Bay is known as the Diamond of the West Coast and the crayfi...

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Lovedale, a national treasure of a press, faces closure
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Feb 04, 2020

Lovedale, a national treasure of a press, faces closure

The 200-year-old Lovedale Press is kept alive by the dedication of its owners, who work without pay. But if funding is n...

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Archive
Feb 04, 2020

Neil Aggett: A sister remembers

Nearly four decades later, the reopening of the inquest into the death in detention of Neil Aggett may finally yield ans...

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Siyamthanda Kolisi
Biography
Feb 03, 2020

Siyamthanda Kolisi

South African rugby union player, DHL Stormers and Springbok captain.

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Taking the battle to the grave: South Africa’s contested sites
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Jan 31, 2020

Taking the battle to the grave: South Africa’s contested sites

Are these mere solemn relics of disrupted narratives or are these images expressive of the general human predicament? ...

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Global Opium Politics in Mozambique and South Africa
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Jan 31, 2020

Global Opium Politics in Mozambique and South Africa

Explore this africa item to learn more about South African history.

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