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Northern Cape
Place
Mar 31, 2011

Northern Cape

The Northern Cape is the largest Province in South Africa, but has the least number of inhabitants. Before 1993 it was p...

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Kalahari Desert
Place
Jul 03, 2025

Kalahari Desert

Kalahari Desert, large basin like Plain of the interior Plateau of Southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, ...

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Eastern Cape Province
Place
Mar 31, 2011

Eastern Cape Province

Before 1993, the Eastern Cape was part of the Cape Province. Today it includes the old homelands of Ciskei and Transkei....

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Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
Place
Mar 02, 2023

Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World.Construction work on...

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Hilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
Place
Apr 04, 2025

Hilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School

The land was part of 'Ongegund', a farm belonging to a Johanna Grobbelaar, which had been purchased by her late husband ...

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Southport, South Coast
Place
Feb 01, 2023

Southport, South Coast

Sandwiched between Sunwich Port and Sea Park, Southport and its neighbours tend to regard themselves as extensions of Po...

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Cape Columbine Lighthouse
Place
Jul 06, 2025

Cape Columbine Lighthouse

 The Lighthouse, which is built on rising ground at 'Castle Rock' and is usually the first Lighthouse sighted by sh...

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Cape Columbine Nature Reserve
Place
Jul 06, 2025

Cape Columbine Nature Reserve

This reserve boasts the last manually controlled lighthouse to be built in South Africa. Near Paternoster on the West Co...

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Johannesburg, Gauteng Province
Place
Mar 04, 2019

Johannesburg, Gauteng Province

 Joburg, the Economic powerhouse of Africa, was founded in the heydays of one of the World's biggest and richest go...

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Pretoria, now known as Tshwane
Place
Mar 29, 2011

Pretoria, now known as Tshwane

The Administrative capital of South Africa, Pretoria, or the 'Jacaranda City' is best known for its annual display of pu...

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Kilnerton Training Institution
Place
Jul 05, 2025

Kilnerton Training Institution

The Kilnerton Training Institution, affiliated to the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, was established in 1886 in th...

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Woodstock
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Woodstock

The village of Papendorp lay some 2km east of Cape Town, on the main road to Stellenbosch, and was named after Pieter va...

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Karoo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
Place
Mar 05, 2020

Karoo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape

The Little or Klein Karoo, which is a long valley bordered by the Swartberg and the Langeberg Mountains in the Western C...

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Garden Route, Cape Town
Place
Jan 17, 2020

Garden Route, Cape Town

The Garden Route begins about four hours outside Cape Town, and includes one of the most beautiful stretches of coastlin...

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Western Cape Province
Place
Mar 31, 2011

Western Cape Province

Mmusi Maimane, in full Mmusi Aloysias Maimane, (born June 6, 1980, Krugersdorp, South Africa), South African businessman...

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