South African novelist and historian Daniel (Dan) Sleigh was born on 3 November 1938, on a farm, Geelbeksfontein, near Langebaan in the Western Cape. He was born to Francis and Susanna; whose fathers were both ship captains. Sleigh would follow a similar path to his grandfathers, when he enrolled in the South African Navy after matriculating from Vredenburg High School, Western Cape. 

Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after he left school in standard 8 (now grade 10), he joined the Railway Police as a constable.

The Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility previously known as the Pretoria Maximum Prison Gallows in Pretoria, Gauteng was built in 1902. It is the only prison in South Africa where executions took place. Between 1902 and 1989, more than 3 500 prisoners were executed at the prison, of which 132 were political prisoners. The gallows were dismantled in 1996, but it was decided to restore it as a memorial museum.

Early in the nineteenth Century, Hermanus Pieters, used to walk ‘over the mountain’ from Caledon, year after year, to camp at the coast and enjoy the abundant fish and shellfish he found there. A shell was discovered on Hoy’s Koppie, and it tell us that 50 000 Years earlier, other people had also found Hermanuspietersfontein a good place to live. From the nineteenth Century into the twentieth Century, the Village grew apace.

Lying about two Hours' drive from Cape Town, Redelinghuys is known as the 'potato Capital', of the Sandveld.

Named after the little Town of Van Reenen, which seems to stand guard at the top of this majestic Pass which winds its way through the Drakensberg Mountains between Ladysmith and Harrismith along the N3 between Durban and Johannesburg

Go on a journey through the Ecology and Geology, of one of the oldest Mountain Ranges in the World – estimated to be 2,500 million Years old, is the majestic Magaliesberg. Located in the Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve, the Magaliesberg Canopy Tour is just 1 ½ hours from Johannesburg and 1 hour from Pretoria.