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Gugulethu is a township 15 km away from Cape Town. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for 'Our Pri...

Steadville is an African township situated in Ladysmith/Emnambithi, KwaZulu-Natal. The name Steadville comes from the St...

This engine was manufactured in England in 1879 by the firm of Kitson and Co, of Leeds, and was exported to South Africa...

  Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transv...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 May 1978. National Cultural History and Open Air Mus...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 9 March 1979. Renowned these days, for its tranquility ...

  Jacob Hendrik Pierneef is one of South Africa’s most well known artists. He was born in Pretoria in 1886 a...

This unique sanctuary is the residence of more than 170 different species and provides a protective roosting place and b...

This site is now part of the experimental farm of the University of Pretoria. On 17 March 1920 it was the first landing ...

This property forms part of the Rooihuiskraal Battlefield. where the Battle of Rooihuiskraal took place, on 12 February ...

The bridge was designed by the Department of Public Works of the ZAR, under the guidance of Sytze Wierda. It was built b...

This imposing Victorian dwelling was erected in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is o...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989.This house dating from 1938 was built for ...

Home to General Jan Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals...

The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom,...

Kroondal, situated on a farm, was one of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in the former Natal and Tr...

Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cot...

Click on image to enlarge Pretoria is commonly known as Jaccaranda City, because of the purple flowered bush that fluri...

The site of Freedom Park was carefully chosen, a 52 hectare undeveloped hill overlooking the city of Pretoria. It was he...

The year 1859 marks the founding of the Reformed Church, in Pretoria and its first church was built in the town in 1863....

Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did no...

Holiday resort at Mossel Bay, named after two steel tanks- Afrikaans: 'bakke', installed to hold water piped fro...

Founded in 1946, this is the home of the South African National Botanical Institute. Thus it serves as a recreational sp...

Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the square to...

Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps t...

After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect Pretoria by con...

This fort was built by the firm Schneider & Co, which was connected to the French firm, Le Creusot. Military enginee...

This was the third fort erected by the German firm Krupp and designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of...

This museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old aircraft, missiles, unifor...

Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a popular jogging...