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Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Bo-Kaap, Cape Town

Slaves of Muslim descent and faith who had been brought to the Cape by the Dutch settlers originally inhabited this area...

Cape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
Place
Aug 16, 2023

Cape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal

Nestled beautifully in the Western Cape winelands, Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-Sout...

Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route
Place
Jan 24, 2020

Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route

The town of Plettenberg Bay lies almost on the border of the Western and Eastern Cape. Built on the hillside, most of th...

Haartbeespoort
Place
Feb 02, 2025

Haartbeespoort

Hartbeespoort, informally also known as: "Harties". is a small resort town north of Johannesburg in the North West Provi...

Centurion, Gauteng
Place
Apr 10, 2025

Centurion, Gauteng

The suburb of Lyttelton was one of the original suburbs that made up the old Verwoerdburg. Lyttelton was granted City Co...

Table View
Place
Mar 13, 2019

Table View

The Table View Beachfront, known as Bloubergstrand, is lined with Apartment blocks, Restauransts, plenty of pubs and ent...

Paardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Paardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 April 1936. The monument was designed by Syt...

Transvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Transvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History

The City's natural history museum, founded in 1892, serves as the home of "Mrs Ples" and includes fossils, amphibians, f...

Noordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
Place
Nov 26, 2020

Noordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula

Chapman’s Bay is therefore one of the oldest place names, in South Africa.

Pretoria Boys High School
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Pretoria Boys High School

This school was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 May 1978. Charles Hope supported the union ...

Anglo Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein
Place
Jul 22, 2020

Anglo Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein

One of the most significant events in the history of South Africa was the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. Although the prot...

University of Pretoria
Place
Nov 01, 2023

University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria has transformed into a dynamic University, with a community of staff and students who come fr...

Isandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu
Place
Nov 04, 2022

Isandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu

Nquthu is an isiZulu name meaning "the back of the head". Umzinyathi District has a total area of 8 079 square Kilomet...

Dundee
Place
Sep 05, 2022

Dundee

King Dingane’s generals, Dambuza and Ndlela kaSompisi. The Battle of Blood River Heritage Site in KwaZulu-Natal represen...

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden lives up to its reputation as the most beautiful garden in Africa and one of the ...

Lions Head, Mt.
Place
Mar 20, 2018

Lions Head, Mt.

Lions Head is between Table Mountain and Signal Hill, adjacent too the Twelve Apostles Mountian Range, in Cape town. The...

Signal Hill
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Signal Hill

Indeed, the City was widely renowned as "The Tavern of the Seas". There were no telephones or telegraphs before the latt...

Amatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
Place
Sep 21, 2016

Amatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal

Town some 130 km North-East of Durban, near Gingindlovu. Where the first sugar factory in Zululand was established in 19...

Cape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Cape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula

Cape Point is a promontory at the South East corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform th...

Company Gardens in Cape Town
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Company Gardens in Cape Town

The tree-lined avenue, with its benches and resident squirrels, forms a pathway between the suburb of Gardens and the ci...

Staats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Staats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria

it was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 April 1960. Sytze Wierda was born in the Netherlands,...

Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens
Place
Mar 27, 2025

Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens

On 3 March 1874, the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden was founded. It was run by the newly formed Pietermaritzburg Bota...

Montagu Pass
Place
Apr 25, 2018

Montagu Pass

Declared a National Monument in 1972, it is the oldest unaltered Pass in South Africa, and links George with the Village...

False Bay
Place
Jul 14, 2011

False Bay

If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg, you will have a great view of the C...

Machadodorp, Mpumalanga
Place
Feb 27, 2020

Machadodorp, Mpumalanga

Machadodorp is a small town situated above the escarpment in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, with the world famous E...

Mossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
Place
Jun 15, 2018

Mossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)

It was named Aguada de Sao Bras, by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea r...

Beachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Beachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban

Mangrove swamps have been rated amongst the rarest and most scientifically interesting eco-systems that occur in the tid...

Rorke's Drift, KZN
Place
Nov 03, 2022

Rorke's Drift, KZN

In 1847, an Irishman named; Jim Rorke bought some Land, alongside a Ford in the Buffalo River. This was the boundary bet...

Vryheid, Northern KwaZulu-Natal
Place
Apr 08, 2021

Vryheid, Northern KwaZulu-Natal

the Phongolo River revealing the World`s oldest rock formations, is a game viewers paradise!

Warden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Warden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality

The N3 passes right through Warden on the route between Johannesburg and Durban, just north of Harrismith. It is thus mo...