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Ysterplaat, Cape Town
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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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Jan 28, 2020

Dutywa, Eastern Cape

The town was founded in 1858 as a military fort after a dispute between a Natal Colony raiding party and local people. I...

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Seshego, a Township
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Feb 18, 2022

Seshego, a Township

Seshego is a Township in the Polokwane Local Municipality of the Capricorn District Municipality of the Limpopo Province...

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Kenhardt
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Feb 24, 2022

Kenhardt

Kenhardt has been for a long time the most remote Settlement in the North-Western Cape, founded 1868. Becoming a Municip...

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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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Schmidtsdrift
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Sep 16, 2021

Schmidtsdrift

Schmidtsdrift is a Town, in Pixley ka Seme District Municipality in the Northern Cape Province! Situated 80 km West of K...

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Phoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
Place
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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Josephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
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Jul 14, 2011

Josephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 December 1978. Newlands in Cape Town is home to the ...

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Uitenhage
Place
Mar 16, 2011

Uitenhage

In Uitenhage you can still find buildings from the 1800's in their original form. The Old Drostdy Museum built in 1809 i...

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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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