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Vanderbijlpark

14 January 2026

Vanderbijlpark is South of Johannesburg, on the banks of the Vaal River. It is considered an industrial city in the Gaut...

Sebokeng Township, Johannesburg

Sebokeng Township, Johannesburg

14 January 2026

Sebokeng is a middle-class Township in Southern Gauteng. Very near the Industrial Cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereenigi...

Laingsburg, Karoo

Laingsburg, Karoo

12 January 2026

A small, modern Karoo Village, Laingsburg lies at the confluence of two rivers in one of the driest parts of the country...

Irma Stern Museum

Irma Stern Museum

12 January 2026

The beloved Irma Stern Museum shut its doors today (2025-10-31) after operating for more than half a century.... but the...

The art lover’s summer road trip through the Western Cape

The art lover’s summer road trip through the Western Cape

Here’s a route that turns gallery-hopping into a slow-travel pilgrimage, guiding you from the city to the countryside, e...

Ysterplaat, Cape Town

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...

Bishopscourt, Cape Town

Bishopscourt, Cape Town

Set right against the slopes of Table Mountain in the Constantia Valley, Bishopscourt gives new meaning to the term ‘lea...

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)

Witwatersrand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Water...

Antipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town

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...

Walker Bay Nature Reserve

Walker Bay Nature Reserve

Walker Bay is a coastal nature reserve in the south-western Cape

Calitzdorp, Route 62

Calitzdorp, Route 62

Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and l...

Kenhardt

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

Curry's Post

Curry’s Post is a beautifully scenic area in the heart of the Midlands Meander that lies between Mooi River and Howick. ...

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State

Mangaung is a Sesotho name meaning "place of Cheetahs". Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were st...

Kingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban

Kingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban

Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZul...

Good Hope Centre, Cape Town

Good Hope Centre, Cape Town

Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos: "This redevelopment will breathe new life into a strategically located p...

Tokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.

Tokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.

29 December 2025

The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, Within two months, had sold it on to Andries Teubes, who probabl...

St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town (also known as the: 'Parish of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt'

St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town (also known as the: 'Parish of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt'

22 December 2025

German architect Carl Otto Hager. Hager had designed numerous Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa including the NG M...

Bothasig, Cape Town

Bothasig, Cape Town

22 December 2025

Bosmansdam was renamed Bothasig ("Botha's Vision") after the then Minister of Housing and later President; P.W. Botha. H...

Botshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein

Botshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein

18 December 2025

Botshabelo, which means 'place of refuge', is the largest township in the Free State and, after Soweto, the largest in t...

Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape

Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape

17 December 2025

The village of Cofimvaba was probably established in about 1877 when the magisterial seat for Tembuland, which had origi...

Union Buildings, Pretoria

Union Buildings, Pretoria

17 December 2025

The Union Buildings are considered South Africa's Architectural Masterpiece! Designed and built by Herbert Baker and com...

The Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa

The Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa

16 December 2025

The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic...

Thaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte

Thaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte

15 December 2025

"The military are the people who underpin our democracy. They must be role models in society, in everyway that they can....

Allemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape

Allemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape

10 December 2025

Allemansfontein is a farm in Blue Crane Route Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape

Glen Grey Division

Glen Grey Division

1 December 2025

The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlemen...

Tylden, Eastern Cape

Tylden, Eastern Cape

1 December 2025

Tylden in the region of Eastern Cape is a town in South Africa. Serving as landing site and home of settlers in the 1820...

Nqamakwe

1 December 2025

In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. As refugees from the Mfacane wars further n...

"Tracing the Old Holiday Routes Across South Africa"

"Tracing the Old Holiday Routes Across South Africa"

1 December 2025

Long before cheap flights and GPS, families charted their holidays along winding national roads that connected small tow...

Stikland Cemetery

Stikland Cemetery

28 November 2025

In a 1947 letter to the Cape Town Clerk and to the secretary of the Board of Trustees to the Cape Peninsula Cemeteries r...