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Lady Frere, Eastern Cape
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Jan 24, 2020

Lady Frere, Eastern Cape

Originally named after the wife of Sir Henry Bartle Frere, the then Governor of the Cape, Lady Frere serves is the centr...

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Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route

The town of Plettenberg Bay lies almost on the border of the Western and Eastern Cape. Built on the hillside, most of th...

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Tankwa Karoo National Park
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Tankwa Karoo National Park

It is recommend you travel through the Park with a vehicle with high ground clearance and good tyres. All roads in the P...

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Tyume Valley, Eastern Cape
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Tyume Valley, Eastern Cape

The Tyume Valley is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, inland from East London about 120 km is the town of Alice, wh...

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Macfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Macfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape

Their ancestors were settled in these villages after the war of 1850 by the colonial authorities. The starvation and ha...

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Mpofu Nature Reserve
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Mpofu Nature Reserve

Mpofu is a town in Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Mpofu, Xhosa for eland...

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Villiersdorp
Place
Jan 23, 2020

Villiersdorp

Lying in the centre of a flourishing apple-growing region, which also happens to produce grapes, onions, peaches and apr...

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Storms River Mouth Rest Camp
Place
Jan 23, 2020

Storms River Mouth Rest Camp

This, "the place of much water", is the Tsitsikamma Section of the Garden Route National Park. The heartland of the park...

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Bloukrans Bridge Rest Camp, Southern Region
Place
Jan 23, 2020

Bloukrans Bridge Rest Camp, Southern Region

The Bloukrans Bridge is a stunning single span arched bridge, located in the Southern Cape region of South Africa. The B...

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ANC celebrates history while Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Brandfort home still languishes in obscurity by Rebecca Davis
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Jan 22, 2020

ANC celebrates history while Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Brandfort home still languishes in obscurity by Rebecca Davis

For the past 15 years, the ANC government has been promising that the house to which Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banis...

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Jabulani Sikhakhane
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Jabulani Sikhakhane

Mr Jabulani Sikhakhane has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on fina...

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Rodger Bosch
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Rodger Bosch

Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural ev...

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Mike Hutchings
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Mike Hutchings

Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in S...

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Lloyd Spencer
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Lloyd Spencer

Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos...

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Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Brett Eloff

Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, So...

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