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The South African mission stations of Buntingville and Old Bunting, founded in the Eastern Cape in the nineteenth Century, were named after Sidney Percival Bunting’s great grandfather, Dr Jabez Bunting.
Old Bunting is a populated place and is located in OR Tambo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 639 metres.
One of the most cherished District dreams is to turn all old mission stations into Hospice Centres for the disabled, Aids orphans and victims of abuse.

In 1970 Brian Astbury, a Professional Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland, Val Donal and Wilson Dunster who were working on a production called ‘Orestes’.[i] Astbury ended up spending more time with the group and followed them as they performed in various venues.[ii] He was inspired by the

When the Dutch first settled in the Cape in 1652, Governor van Riebeeck's brief included the construction of a fort and the setting out of gardens where vegetables and fruit trees could be grown. The site for these gardens was chosen close to the so-called Sweet River, a little south-west of the present Parade.

Seven kilometers outside Stellenbosch in the heart of the wine lands you will find a place of serenity and ultimate beauty
Wine has been a product of the Valley since the first white man settled there.  Vine cuttings were sent to the first commander of the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck, from Germany’s Rhineland in 1654 but arrived rotten.  Another batch, sent in the following year, proved to be the root and foundation of the wine industry.  The first wine was produced on February 2, 1659 and Van Riebeeck wrote joyously in his diary:"Today, praise be the Lord, wine was made for the fir