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A park, in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont. Named after Roger Arderne, a British immigrant who owned the estate, of wh...

The Bestbier family first bought this farm in 1928 and today it’s still run by the family with Pieter Bestbier (now a th...

In the year 1824 a number of farm owners, living on the outskirts of Cape Town. Petitioned Lord Somerset, the Governor o...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 August 1975.The building has wood windows, old lamps,...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 December 1976.

The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President ...

The building was erected in 1895 for the family of General JBM Hertzog who lived there until 1928. It was declared a Nat...

The gardens were established in 1967 and they are of particular scientific and environmental importance. They contain th...

The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby the United King...

These three buildings form the historical core of Grey College, the oldest school in the Free State. Brill House and And...

Cecil Rhodes had a herbivorous menagerie on his estate and in 1896 he was given two lions and a leopard, for which he bu...

Church Square is one of the three early areas of land about which the early town developed and its boundaries probably b...

The village of Geluk was occupied by Boer forces in October 1899.

Major Henry Warden, founder of Bloemfontein, gave the town a spiritual heart when he laid the foundation of the Victoria...

Orchid House. © University of the Free State The Orchard House is one of the most modern nurseries of its kind in ...

The Bloemfontein City Hall was built in 1935 and has a beautiful Italian style interior with an attractive sandstone ext...

Click on image to enlarge Known as the "Pride of the Free State", the CR Swart Building houses the Provincial...

Click on image to enlarge The oldest remaining building in Bloemfontein, the First Raadsaal is part of the National Mus...

On President Brand Street Bloemfontein, is the Jubileum building. It was built in the late 1920s by boys from a local or...

  In 1912, prominent black leaders gathered here and forged the foundations of what would eventually become the ru...

The Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein was originally built for the Rugby World Cup of 1995. Then, it was revamped to ho...

Along President Brand Street (Bloemfontein’s ‘historical mile’) you will find classic sandstone buildings that surprise ...

Freshford House Museum is one of the few houses of the upper middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in B...

Oliewenhuis Art Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South ...

The government building complex was completed in 1877 although its Volksraad Chamber was already in use on 31 May 1875. ...

Situated in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rosebank is a vibrant multi-cultural district, business node and tourist attract...

On 7 August 1993, Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), had just been given the fre...

The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It seems probable that ...

Fourteen Streams is located in Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain el...

The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12...