Historical Site

Completed on 4 September 1897 by the Krupps firm, Von Dewitz and Weiner, the fort cost £49 000 and had the same type of ...

The actual wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. In Britain the story of the SS Mendi is almost unkn...

The socio-economic growth of the Municipality is centered on Agriculture. The municipal Area also has mining activities,...

This spectacular sandstone Mountain is a backdrop for the town of Zastron, in the South-Eastern Free State Province of S...

A literacy Museum in the house where two famous Afrikaans poets and writer brothers, N.P van Wyk Louw and W.E.G. Louw we...

Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, ...

The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and w...

This Monument, near the Bloemfontein Zoo,, takes the form of an obelisk. It was erected as a memorial to the Canadian so...

The uMgungundlovu was formerly known as Dingane's Kraal and royal Capital. He took power, after also assassinating Shaka...

Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone Plateau, at the historic and spiritual heart of the Sotho Kingdom, in Lesotho

The Village of Cookhouse was located on the Farm; 'Roodewal', near a River crossing. It probably derived its name from a...

Winterton is a little Town found on the banks of the Tugela River in the foothills of the Drakensberg. Close to the Seco...

Wagendrift Dam and Moor Park Nature Reserve is situated just off the N3 highway, near Estcourt. The Reserve is roughly 9...

The Hugh Exton Photographic Museum is an incredible testament to the tireless work of a single man. Kept here are the va...

The Living Museum of the Ju'Hoasani is situated in the small village Grashoek, about halfway between Grootfontein and Ts...

The Eersteling gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s modern History, has, i...

The Village of Clumber was established on land allocated in 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers fro...

The Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower is an icon of the old Cape Town Harbour. It was declared a National Monument unde...

It was established by Bishop H P Halbeck in 1839 and named after Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson was a local hero. A red haire...

The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backh...

Located 60 km North-West of Prieska and 26 km North-East of Marydale, site of the present Pypklip. Located in the Siyand...

The Railway Siding of Centlivres was probably named in honour of John Centlivres Chase, a British settler who emigrated ...

In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the s...

In 1859, the missionary and explorer David Livingstone found the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear" after his friend, the...

The Cape St. Francis Lighthouse, also known as Seal Point Lighthouse, is a beautiful white Building that forms the focal...

this Region is referred to as the “Genesis of Life”. This feature, together with the Early Stone Age artifacts dating ba...

On the Southern edge of one of the Country’s most famous townships, Soweto, lies the equally Historic Avalon Cemetery.

The Strawberry Hill Farmhouse (now a guest house) was built in the late 1800’s by Thomas Dunbar. Thomas Dunbar was a ren...

The World's oldest known mattress has been unearthed in South Africa, in a cave in KZN! Made of plant material and dated...

Click on image to enlarge South African Republic president Paul Kruger's farm was declared a National Monument by the...

The property was originally part of the Leeuwenhof Estate and was developed in about 1820 by Johannes Zorn. It consisted...

The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance of Major-General ...

Britstown located in the Northern Cape of South Africa, a small farming town Named after Hans Brits, who accompanied Dav...

The Van der Kemp Memorial Church is still very much the spiritual centre of Bethelsdorp. Nearby are the almshouses, buil...

Hidden in the caves are the most beautiful cave paintings. These were done by the Bushmen who lived in this area thousan...

Umtata, founded in 1879, was declared the capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. T...

Adams College is a public school situated in Adams Mission which is 8 km inland from Amanzimtoti and 35 km south of Durb...

Village at the site of the present Port Nolloth. The Khoikhoi name Aukwatowa; for 'where water took away the old man'. I...

Former name of Luderitz Bay. Portuguese for 'bay of tacks', this name was given in 1488 by the Portuguese mariner Bartho...

a Monument 2,5 km North of Graaf-Reinet. It was erected in honour of the Voortrekker leader General Andries Wilhelmus Ja...