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Kleinmond, Western Cape
Place
Dec 10, 2019

Kleinmond, Western Cape

Kleinmond is within easy driving distance from Cape Town, along the scenic coastal road known as R44 or Clarence Drive, ...

Agate Terrace, Port St. Johns
Place
Sep 16, 2016

Agate Terrace, Port St. Johns

Cliff 4 km East of Port St. Johns. Takes its name from varieties of verigated, semi-pelucid, Chalcedonies found here.&nb...

White River, Mpumalanga
Place
May 13, 2021

White River, Mpumalanga

The little town of White River - an important Farming and tourism centre - was founded around 1890. It’s proximity to th...

Legogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
Place
Mar 16, 2011

Legogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga

lowveld Legogote region, Mpumalanga Mountain 1 193m high, situated just South-East of eLundi and 12m North-East of White...

Port St. Johns
Place
Apr 11, 2019

Port St. Johns

The wildness of the Coast of the Eastern Cape, with its deep Gorges and impenetrable Forests, mangrove Swamps and the pr...

Botshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
Place
Aug 13, 2020

Botshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg

It was at Botshabelo that the missionary R.F Güstav Trumpelmann, with the invaluable assistance of his erstwhile student...

Aberfeldy a Settlement in the Free Sate
Place
Sep 14, 2016

Aberfeldy a Settlement in the Free Sate

A small Settlement, 26 km from Harrismith in the Free State. The Farm; Aberfeldy had a Post Office known as Elandsrivier...

Fort Glamorgan, East London
Place
Nov 27, 2020

Fort Glamorgan, East London

Named a National Monument in 1938, the Building stands within the Glamorgan Prison grounds. Permission from the departme...

Pongola Game Reserve, Zululand
Place
Apr 21, 2021

Pongola Game Reserve, Zululand

The Pongola River, broad and perennial, meanders through the centre of the Reserve before entering the man-made 13 276 h...

Louwsburg, Zululand
Place
Apr 19, 2021

Louwsburg, Zululand

Ithala Game Reserve is situated immediately North-West of Louwsburg, overlooking the Pongola River Valley. The Reserve l...

Kumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal
Place
Apr 15, 2021

Kumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal

A 'Blackspot' was an area of land in which blacks lived in freehold in what the National Government regarded as white So...

Driefontein, Mpumalanga
Place
Apr 07, 2021

Driefontein, Mpumalanga

Found in the Municipality of: Mkhondo Gert Sibande District, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve
Place
Mar 13, 2020

Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve

The Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve is situated in the coastal zone, North of Cape Town. Located in the Cape Floristic...

Langkloof Valley, Eastern Cape
Place
Jun 19, 2020

Langkloof Valley, Eastern Cape

Part of the Cape Fold Belt, the Langkloof Valley and Mountains are a short range of Mountains that serve as a link betwe...

PAC’s African Women’s Organisation
Article
Mar 31, 2011

PAC’s African Women’s Organisation

The aim of the African Women's Organisation is to rally African women under the banner of African Nationalism and to edu...

Article
Oct 12, 2011

PAC office bearers

PAC Presidents from 1959 - present President Period Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe 19...

Fugard Theatre, Cape Town
Place
Feb 07, 2017

Fugard Theatre, Cape Town

The Fugard, a theatre based in Cape Town, was built within one of the five interconnected Sacks Futeran buildings in Dis...

Somerset Hospital, Cape Town
Place
Mar 15, 2021

Somerset Hospital, Cape Town

The Hospital established its own nurse training school and was the first hospital to train non-white nurses. It was also...

The Group Areas Act of 1950
Article
Dec 19, 2014

The Group Areas Act of 1950

The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africa...

Fort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Fort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria

Completed on 4 September 1897 by the Krupps firm, Von Dewitz and Weiner, the fort cost £49 000 and had the same type of ...

University of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
Place
Sep 11, 2017

University of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School

With origins that can be traced back to 1904, the University of the Free State (UFS) is one of the oldest institutions o...

Letsemeng Local Municipality, Free State Province
Place
Mar 04, 2021

Letsemeng Local Municipality, Free State Province

The Letsemeng Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated in the South-Western, Free State Province within ...

Kopanong Local Municipality, Free Sate
Place
Mar 03, 2021

Kopanong Local Municipality, Free Sate

The Kopanong Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated within the Xhariep District of the Free State Prov...

Koffiefontein, Free State Province
Place
Mar 01, 2021

Koffiefontein, Free State Province

Koffiefontein's proximity to Mafikeng and Kimberley meant that it became involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-190...

Abees, Bela-Bela
Place
Sep 14, 2016

Abees, Bela-Bela

Old Khoikhoi name for Warmbad. It means 'place of cleansing or washing'. A Town 100 km away from Pretoria North. It...

Mendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
Place
Feb 25, 2021

Mendi Memorial, Eastern Cape

The actual wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. In Britain the story of the SS Mendi is almost unkn...

Oppermansgronde, Free State Province
Place
Feb 22, 2021

Oppermansgronde, Free State Province

The socio-economic growth of the Municipality is centered on Agriculture. The municipal Area also has mining activities,...

Louw House Museum, Sutherland
Place
Feb 06, 2020

Louw House Museum, Sutherland

A literacy Museum in the house where two famous Afrikaans poets and writer brothers, N.P van Wyk Louw and W.E.G. Louw we...

Zonnebloem College, Cape Town
Place
Jan 14, 2021

Zonnebloem College, Cape Town

farm Zonnebloem (sunflower) by controversial Cape Governor Sir George Grey. educated the sons and daughters of chiefs im...

'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
Place
Sep 19, 2016

'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay

Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, ...