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Wagon Museum
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Jul 14, 2011

Wagon Museum

This Museum is situated on the same premises as the First 'Raadsaal' in Bloemfontein and houses a collection of historic...

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Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
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Mar 20, 2019

Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg

This historically rich site - where densely populated and frenetic Hillbrow meets leafy and affluent Parktown and bureau...

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Mariannhill, Pinetown
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Apr 07, 2020

Mariannhill, Pinetown

Mariannhill lies in a densely green, intense Landscape swept by Forests and sheltered, leafy Neighborhoods outside Durba...

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Ysterplaat, Cape Town
Place
Mar 01, 2022

Ysterplaat, Cape Town

Ysterplaat is an old Northern Suburb of Cape Town and home to an Airforce Base, School's and a Museum; amongst many Chur...

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Hazyview
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Nov 24, 2017

Hazyview

A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky being modernized but will always keep it's charm! The na...

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Diamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
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Jul 14, 2011

Diamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance

The site of the Battle of Diamond Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers...

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Elaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
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Mar 16, 2011

Elaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal

Elandslaagte was a mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860....

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Antipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town
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Jan 27, 2022

Antipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town

In July 1977, These two ships; Antipolis and Romelia, were both bound for the scrap heap in Taiwan. A Japanese tugboat n...

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Amajuba, a Mountain in Natal
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Sep 20, 2016

Amajuba, a Mountain in Natal

Mountain 14 km South-West of Volksrust and 32 km North of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-B...

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Oct 02, 2019

Simon's Town Museum

next door to Church

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Phoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
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Jul 14, 2011

Phoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail

The Phoenix Settlement comprised of 100 acres of land and was purchased by Gandhiji in 1904. It was on this Settlement t...

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Tiskiwin Museum, Marrakech- Morocco
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Jan 20, 2022

Tiskiwin Museum, Marrakech- Morocco

The Tiskiwin Museum was founded by Bert Flint, who was born in 1931 in the Netherlands where he studied Spanish language...

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Leeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
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Jul 14, 2011

Leeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town

Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stan...

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Naval Hill
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Naval Hill

An extremely popular spot providing excellent views of the Town and the Franklin Game Reserve forms part of the Hill. Se...

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Tolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
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Nov 15, 2021

Tolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg

It was in South Africa that Gandhi developed, between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, an...

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