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Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin i...

Waterfall in the Umgeni River, 22 km North-East of Pietermaritzburg. Probably named after the consort of Queen Victoria,...

Dam at the foot of the Soutpansberg, named after Joao Albasini who lived from 1813 to 1885. He was the first European se...

A Bay is an Area of water surrounded or otherwise demarcated by Land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surroun...

The ‘Mauritius’ was one of the sea vessels, sent from the Netherlands, to find a trade Route to India in 1592. It was ca...

Mountain of which the highest point is 846 m, situated 22 km east of Stanford and 30 km South-East of Caledon. The name ...

Residential area for civil servants, members of parliament and railway officials, laid out on part of Wingfield, a forme...

Railway station between Sycamore and Hemlock, on the route from Pretoria to Maputo, some 16km east of Waterval Onder.

Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal fro...

Established in 1905, the temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Pretoria. The temple gets its name from Mariammen, the god...

The Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, which built the Great Synagogue, was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney...

Witzenberg is nestled in the Cape Winelands District on Route 62, consisting of : Ceres; Tulbagh; Wolseley; Op-die-Berg ...

Early name for the present Venterstad district, Eastern Cape. It was laid out in 1875 and attained municipal status in 1...

Township some 6 km North of Cunning Moor. Presumably named after the Village in France, where Henry V, of England, defea...

Town at the Southern foot of Aggeneys Mountains, about 60 km West of Pofadder. It has been suggested that the name is de...

Pass about 40 km North of Witbank, leading Westwards from the Olifants River Valley to Wildehondekraal. The name is Afri...

Village some 8 km south of Graaff-Reinet, in the Sundays River Valley.

Addo Heights is a Farm and is located in Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain ...

Suburb of Port Elizabeth. Laid out in 1949 and was named after a former mayor of the city, WC Adcock; known as Adcockval...

Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from the Fa...

26 km North of Noenieput. The name in Afrikaans meaning, water-well. Alternativly the name could have arisen from the us...

A Village situated some 32 km north of Grootfontein. it came into being in 1921, to serve a Mine producing; lead, vanadi...

Mountain Pass between Hoedspruit and Ohrigstad. Named after J. G. Strydom ,a well known Farmer and Civil Servant, from t...

Railway Station some 34 km from Port Nolloth. It takes its name from the surrounding plain, known as Abbevlak. The name ...

A Mountain Range 150 km from Springbok. The name of Khoikhoi origin and means 'to carry on one's back'; the Mountain loo...

Mountian in the Richtersveld, at the confluence of the Fish River with the Orange River. This a Khoikhoi name for 'Rooil...

The name in Khoi means 'red hill tree'. This refers to the Pepper Trees, the berries of which give a reddish apperance.&...

Old Khoi name for 'Rooilyf', a railway siding 17 km North of Groblershoop, on the way to Sishen. The name means 'red bod...

Khoikhoi name of Rooiberg, some 10km from Eksteenfontein . Translated from Afrikaans means 'red mountain'.