The building was designed by architect Carl Otto Hager, whose plans were later revised by AH Reid of Port Elizabeth. The...
The Erica School for Girls in Port Elizabeth was begun in 1884 by Miss Mary Anne van Wyk, who initially gave lessons in ...
During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of educa...
The memorial, designed by Joseph Whitehead and cast in bronze by the Thames Dillon Works, in Surrey, was unveiled on 11 ...
This dwelling was erected in 1894 for RH Hammersley-Heenen, resident engineer and general manager of the South African R...
The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that reveals much about this old c...
Port Elizabeth owes its origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin was the Act...
The Lookout stands on a high promontory overlooking a Valley noted for its Indigenous Vegetation. Although it is a spot ...
Fort Frederick, Port Elizabeth, which is located along Belmont Terrace, is a stone fort built in 1799 by the British For...
Emirates Airline Park, also popularly known by its old name Ellis Park Stadium, was constructed in 1928 and was first na...
George Harrison and the history of Johannesburg are closely bound together: it was he who first found gold in 1886, a di...
In 1886 Hans Sauer, who combined a medical practice with prospecting on Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’...
Located in the heart of Soweto, the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village is a museum-cum-outdoor exhibition of astounding sculpt...
The story the Kliptown Open Air Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom C...
A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending nort...
This is a double-storey manor House designed by Architect P Piekes. Erected in 1904-05, it is an excellent example of th...
Kwa-Zulu Natal has a diverse literary heritage, from the legacy of prominent Indian writers and political figures in Gre...
KwaMuhle Museum depicts Durban as an African city searching for identity within a new political context. This mus...
About half an hour’s drive from Durban is a thriving industrial and commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine,...
The firm of WM Cuthbert & Co, shoe merchants, was established in 1882. Their Johannesburg building was designed by a...
Dolobran was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the famous explorer Carl Andersson. Andersson had...
The foundation stone of this building was laid on 5 May 1906 by General Koos de la Rey, and the church was officially co...
On Thursday 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR Church Johannesburg, being the DR Church Jeppest...
This structure, which combines a shop with onsite residential premises for its owner, was erected before 1905 and is the...
Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its...
Glenshiel is a National Monument in Westcliff , Johannesburg! It was built in 1908, and designed by Sir Herbert Baker. I...
A mobile South African National Monument, yes on wheels, is resting in the Museum railway yard at SANRASM, Krugersdorp. ...
Johann Georg Rathfelder was born in Stuttgart in 1811 and emigrated to the Cape in 1835. Following his marriage in the c...
The village of Elsie's River, also known as Elsie's Kraal River, was probably named in honour of one Elsje van Suurwaard...
Named after Jonas Bergtheil, this museum is situated in the leafy suburb of Westville, almost midway between Durban and ...
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