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Roodepoort, Johannesburg
Place
Mar 25, 2019

Roodepoort, Johannesburg

Roodepoort is actually a city of its own, although it has now merged with the suburbs of Johannesburg to such a degree, ...

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Blombos Cave and Private Nature Reserve, Stillbaai - Cape Town
Place
Aug 03, 2020

Blombos Cave and Private Nature Reserve, Stillbaai - Cape Town

Blombos Cave is a World-famous Archaeological Site, overlooking the sea and located in a private nature Reserve which is...

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Eldarado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto
Place
Sep 02, 2020

Eldarado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto

District located in the Province of Gauteng, near Johannesburg. Since 1973 there has been extensive expansion of the Are...

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Lenasia, Soweto
Place
Sep 02, 2020

Lenasia, Soweto

Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to attend the Eidgah. The Eidgah was hosted next to the Mohammadiyya Qadriyya...

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Hindu Tamil Institute Building, Durban
Place
May 13, 2020

Hindu Tamil Institute Building, Durban

The institute was formed in 1938 by a group of Chatsworth banana and vegetable farmers to run classes in Tamil, Telugu, ...

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Cato Manor, Durban
Place
Mar 16, 2011

Cato Manor, Durban

Cato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre.

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Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Bo-Kaap, Cape Town

Slaves of Muslim descent and faith who had been brought to the Cape by the Dutch settlers originally inhabited this area...

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Cape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
Place
Aug 16, 2023

Cape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal

Nestled beautifully in the Western Cape winelands, Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-Sout...

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Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route

The town of Plettenberg Bay lies almost on the border of the Western and Eastern Cape. Built on the hillside, most of th...

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Haartbeespoort
Place
Feb 02, 2025

Haartbeespoort

Hartbeespoort, informally also known as: "Harties". is a small resort town north of Johannesburg in the North West Provi...

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Centurion, Gauteng
Place
Apr 10, 2025

Centurion, Gauteng

The suburb of Lyttelton was one of the original suburbs that made up the old Verwoerdburg. Lyttelton was granted City Co...

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Table View
Place
Mar 13, 2019

Table View

The Table View Beachfront, known as Bloubergstrand, is lined with Apartment blocks, Restauransts, plenty of pubs and ent...

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Paardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Paardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 April 1936. The monument was designed by Syt...

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Transvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Transvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History

The City's natural history museum, founded in 1892, serves as the home of "Mrs Ples" and includes fossils, amphibians, f...

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Noordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
Place
Nov 26, 2020

Noordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula

Chapman’s Bay is therefore one of the oldest place names, in South Africa.

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