Latest Articles

Tunisia

Dundee

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

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

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

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...

Staats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria

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

Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens

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

Machadodorp, Mpumalanga

Machadodorp, Mpumalanga

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

Beachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban

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

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

Vryheid, Northern KwaZulu-Natal

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

Warden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality

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...

Tugela River and Waterfalls, in the Drakensberg

Tugela River and Waterfalls, in the Drakensberg

Tugela River, the largest River in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It rises as a stream on the 3,050-meter high, M...

Maloti-Drakensburg Park

Maloti-Drakensburg Park

The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transboundary site composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa...

Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town

Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town

Being a five star hotel aimed at attracting the upper end of the market the not so wealthy do not always get an opportun...

Valley of a Thousand Hills

Valley of a Thousand Hills

The Thousand Hills experience is to KwaZulu-Natal what the Garden Route is to the Cape. It is an area of great peace and...

Msunduzi River

The Msunduzi River is well known for hosting the start of The Dusi Canoe Marathon. This is a canoe paddle race, that cov...

Pietermaritzburg, Umgungundlovu District Municipality

Pietermaritzburg, Umgungundlovu District Municipality

Pietermaritzburg is the Capital and second-largest City in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded i...

University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)

University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)

Founded in 1910 as; 'The Natal University College', in Pietermaritzburg. The University of Natal was granted independent...

Bantry Bay, Cape Town

Bantry Bay, Cape Town

As its name signifies, Bantry Bay lies perched on the rocks overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in one of the most exclusive ...

Imbali Township, Pietermaritzburg

Imbali Township, Pietermaritzburg

The Manaye Hall in Imbali is a Monumental Landmark as a venue; for the All-In-Africa Conference that was organised in Ma...

Mooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal

Mooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal

Mooi River forms part of the popular Midlands Meander self-drive Arts and Crafts Route, while all around are opportuniti...

Weenan

Weenen, a term in Dutch which translates to "wept," stands as a testament to the turbulent History of South Africa. Loca...

Greytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Greytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal

This small town in KwaZulu-Natal was, according to district records, named in honour of Earl Grey, the renowned British ...

Kruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.

Kruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.

Paul Kruger used to be a member of the church in Pretoria. This church still has the chairs Paul and his Wife used to si...

Boschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town

Boschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town

One of the oldest farms in South Africa, founded in 1685, the farm has grown with the passing centuries into a cherished...

Heidelberg, Gauteng

Heidelberg, Gauteng

The Ueckermann family features prominently in the history of Heidelberg, Gauteng. Heinrich Julius Friedrich Christian Ue...

Elim

The charming little village known as Elim, dominated by white-washed fishermen’s cottages and fig trees, is one of the f...

Salt River

The exact date when the Village of Salt River was established is not known but in 1665 the Settlement is recorded to hav...

Verlorenvlei

Verlorenvlei is a long estuary stretching between the village of Elands Bay and Redelinghuys, some 25 kilometres south o...

Mandela House

The Mandela House Museum in Soweto is housed in what was once the home of  Nelson Mandela, the World's most famous ...