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Magisterial district and division in the North-West in the Cape Province. Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was Prime M...

In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among the Griqua ...

The district of George was originally part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 A...

Mission station of the Moravian Church on the Western slopes of the Piketberg, in the magisterial district of Piketberg....

Positioned beautifully on the mountainside as you go along to Worcestor, is a health resort! This region in the Worceste...

The village of Great Brak Rivier was founded by Charles Searle, an English paper-mill hand who, together with his wife a...

A forest 34km East of Elliotdale. The forest is reputed to have resulted from Imilenya shrubs, planted on the grave of C...

The town was founded by General Johan Fick in 1867 who won the territory in the Basotho Wars. Ficksburg is situated in ...

Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. T...

An agricultural town in the Orange Free State province, Reitz is 51km from Bethlehem. At an altitude of 1622 metres, Rei...

Delmas became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as Panjo. The tiger, only 1...

Gazankulu was the homeland of the Shangaan and Tsonga people in South Africa. It was divided over two territories, west ...

Territory of British Bechuanaland The territory known as British Bechuanaland covered an area that included the subsequ...

The Cradock division is known as The Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality or District. It is situated in the Chris Hani Di...

A party of 256 from London led by Lieutenant John BAILIE, R.N. sailed in "Chapman". Their locations was betwee...

The village of Cyphergat was the headquarters of the Cyphergat Coal Mining Co (Ltd). The railway line linking Sterkstroo...

Emfundisweni, or more correctly Mfundisweni, was founded in 1862 as a joint project of missionaries from the Wesleyan Me...

Chumie was established in 1820 by Reverend John Brownlee,  as a station of for the Glasgow Missionary Society. The ...

The village of Emjanyana was probably established in the mid-1970s, in Ngcobo Eastern Cape.  In 1894 the Society fo...

On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, Chief Fubu of the amaQwathi met with Archde...

Enon is a small town in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is named after the biblical place mentioned in John. It lie...

The village of Etembeni was established in 1868 as a station of the Berlin Missionary Society.

Initially the division of Fort Beaufort fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate division on 8 M...

Fort Cox was a "post of occupation" established by the British military in 1835 and was named in honour of Major William...

Fort Cunynghame was a telegraph office which, together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeia...

The village of Glen Grey was named in honour of Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape 1854-61. On 17 July 1902 a fire br...

The village of Gonubie derived its name from a Khoikhoi term for the brambleberry bush.

It was established by the Transvaal Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was horizontal black-white-red stripes with...

More or less 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town...

The small town of Stutterheim lies at the foot of the Amatola Mountain range in the Eastern Cape Province of South Afric...