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PlaceHottentots Holland Mountains Nature Reserve
The rocky mountains, bright wildflowers and still natural pools makes the Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve perfect for challenging hikes, pulse-racing…
PlaceRedelinghuys, Cape West Coast
Lying about two Hours' drive from Cape Town, Redelinghuys is known as the 'potato Capital', of the Sandveld. It lies on the R366 between Picketberg and…
PlaceKomatipoort
The original inhabitants of the region around Komatipoort were the Bushmen. Their paintings they have been discovered under rock ledges, that date back from a…
PlaceVoices of Women Museum, Durban
This fascinating, living archival Museum holds within its walls some 3 000 embroidered cloths and personal stories from women who have lived around South…
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province …
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ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a…
PlaceBoskop Village, Nature Reserve and Dam- near Potchefstroom
Boskop Dam and Nature Reserve is located in the Mooi River Valley 20 km North of the Town of Potchefstroom a short distance from the R501 Carletonville Road…
PlaceKrugersdorp
In Afrikaans it means: 'Kruger's Town, falling under the municipality known as: 'Mogale City'. Krugersdorp was essentially a mining town, regarded as the…
PlaceDiepsloot, Johannesburg
… housing project) houses, self-built houses on serviced sites, and a small number of bank-financed houses. The formal …
PlaceComrades Marathon- 'House' or Museum
The Comrades Marathon Museum, which is one of only three dedicated road-running Museums in the World, first opened its doors to the public in 1988 in the grand…
PlaceSiyathemba Township, Balfour
The Dipaleseng Local Municipality is a Category B municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District in the Mpumalanga Province. It is bordered by Lekwa and…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
9th September 2019 marks the 55th anniversary of the death in police detention of Suliman “Babla” Saloojee (aged 33). He was a legal clerk and a member of the…
EventThe reburial of Flora
On 6 April 1991, the reburial of a slave named Flora took place at Vergelegen Wine Estate, Somerset West. This came about after the discovery of her remains in…
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
The Cradle of Humankind was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. It is about 50 km North West of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng…
PlacePrince Albert
… Albert District has a rich Heritage of Later Stone Age sites, stone tools and rock paintings. Many of which date …
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… Dam Complex, investigation and development of new dam sites on the Zambezi River and analysing and disseminating …
PlaceCape Saint Francis, Lighthouse in the Eastern Cape
The Cape St. Francis Lighthouse, also known as Seal Point Lighthouse, is a beautiful white Building that forms the focal point of Cape St Francis, in the…
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
Mooivallei Suiwel is a cheese and butter producer based at Bonnievale, a town in the Breede River Valley in the Western Cape. Its name is Afrikaans for …
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… Health Insurance (NHI) by rolling out various pilot sites across the country and drafting the enabling … through programmes that expand early childhood…
PlaceHermanus
"This Town is known for many things, not least of all the abundance of whales that skirt past the coast every Year in Spring and Summer! A Seaside Town, South…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape Town 1953 Father dies 1958 Matriculates from St George’s grammar school …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
Many people were involved in the historic turning point that 16 June 1976 became. These South African students, parents, activists, government employees, and…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
“Imbali” is the IsiZulu word for: “Flower”. Imbali Township was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment…
PlaceRooi-Els, Western Cape
Rooi Els perches like a child's puzzle piece on the edge of Route 44, the first little seaside village after leaving Gordon's Bay, before the landmark Hangklip…
PlaceSpringbok, Namaqualand
Namaqualand's largest town, is Springbok. You can enjoy the wild flowers and dramatic landscapes of the Northern Cape, a South African destination that stands…
PlaceSedibeng District Municipality
… turnabout. The Sedibeng Region boasts several Heritage Sites related to the South African War of 1899-1902 and the …
PlaceGranger Bay
Granger Bay was named after a Captain Robert Granger, a merchant and owner of five ships. In 1647 a ship named the Haarlem ran aground at what was later named…