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University of Cape Town
11 May 2026
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa's oldest University, and is one of Africa's leading Teaching and Resea...
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Bothasig, Cape Town
22 December 2025
Bosmansdam was renamed Bothasig ("Botha's Vision") after the then Minister of Housing and later President; P.W. Botha. H...
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Polokwane
16 June 2025
Polokwane is the capital city of Limpopo. Where the youth uprising occures in Soweto in 1976.
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Transvaal Province
8 May 2025
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed ...
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Nhlangakazi, the Holy Mountain of the Shembe
24 February 2025
KwaZulu-Natal. Church members start the journey to the top of the holy Mountain Nhlangakazi. 100,000 pilgrims make a thr...
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Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
29 December 2023
The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town. Hout Bay is like a...
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Phala Phala, Game Farm
4 January 2023
Phala Phala Wildlife, is a new 'Rare Game' Group of Farms founded with the purpose of breeding.
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Majuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
30 December 2022
This 4 110 megawatt station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest power stations in the W...
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Hammarsdale, KZN
30 December 2022
The Township boasts of a local library known as Mpumalanga Library and a shopping center which has become the heart of t...
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Tokai, Cape Town
10 November 2022
The Suburb of Tokai took its name from Tokaj, a range of Hills in Hungary. It was built in the late 1940's due to the ur...
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Maputaland, Northern Part of KZN
12 September 2022
Maputaland, a Region of KwaZulu Natal, stretches from the scenic splendour of iSimangaliso Wetland Park in St. Lucia in ...
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Schmidtsdrift
21 January 2022
Schmidtsdrift is a Town, in Pixley ka Seme District Municipality in the Northern Cape Province! Situated 80 km West of K...
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KaNyamazane Township, Mpumalanga
5 November 2021
KaNyamazane, previously known as Lekazi, was established as a labour reserve, and was then zoned to fall within the Kang...
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Masiphumelele Township, Cape Town
26 August 2021
Masiphumelele means “We will succeed” in Xhosa. This spirit of endurance was needed by the people for decades - and thes...
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Compensation, Settlement near Durban
16 April 2021
The Area Compensation got its name from Compensation Farm acquired by Edmund Morewood in 1849, where in 1851 he produced...
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Kumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal
15 April 2021
A 'Blackspot' was an area of land in which blacks lived in freehold in what the National Government regarded as white So...
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Cato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
18 November 2020
This interactive Museum is a tribute to the spirit of defiance against the Durban System, which led to evictions, riots ...
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Conradie Care Centre, Pinelands
5 August 2020
It's a very old, single story Hospital divided into probably about 40 buildings. The place has been trashed by vagrants,...
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Thembuland
30 January 2020
It is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the Them...