Historical Site

Gordons Bay is a picturesque coastal village, nestled at the foot of the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the False Bay ...

Chapman’s Peak is named after John Chapman, the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be ...

The main economic activity is the production of maize (corn) and meat. Lichtenburg lies in the heart of the maize triang...

Vryburg lies on the N14, due West of the Towns of Klerksdorp and Orkney - as in 'Orkney Snork Nie' (Orkney doesn't snore...

The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama first set foot on South African soil on 7 November 1497 near here, when he explor...

 Aberdeen is about 50 km South-West of Graaff-Reinet and only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth.Aberdeen was f...

103 geographical name changes have occurred in the Eastern Cape since 2019. On the 6 December 2023, Matatiele Township c...

Early in the nineteenth century, Hermanus Pieters, used to walk ‘over the mountain’ from Caledon, year after year, to ca...

Touwsrivier is a community of approximately 8000 people and is also home to the World's largest CPV solar plant! CPV Pow...

Pofadder is a small town situated in the Northern Cape of South Africa. While pofadder means, as you would expect, puff ...

Begha Mouth is one of the beaches located in the Ngqushwa local municipality. This what captivates many visitors is its ...

The Magwa Waterfall lies in the middle of the 1 800 hectare Magwa tea plantation, South Africa's last remaining tea esta...

Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is bounded on the north by ...

This memorial was erected towards the end of 1902, on the highest point in Johannesburg; Observatory Ridge.  It hon...

The KwaNzimakwe “place of the Nzimakwe” rural village is easily accessible off the R69 Road between Mpenjati Nature Rese...

The Oviston Nature Reserve lies is on the, Southern side of the Gariep Dam. The Oviston Nature Reserve is a 16 000 Hecta...

Barberton, 'The Gold Rush' Town of Mpumalanga

KwaXolo Caves is a home for historic Caves and Rock Art paintings . We offer hiking into the caves at 150pp. We also hav...

The earliest known wreck is the Portuguese carrack, Sao Bento. A carrack is a sailing sailing ship of the 14th–17th cent...

At sites such as Thulamela, in the north of the Kruger National Park, evidence of this bustling trade still exists in th...

The first Church, completed in 1860, was built on a Hillock in the middle of Lady Grey. It is interesting to note that a...

Declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Government, Mqhekezweni is a very significant early great place o...

In 1905 the Seminary was moved to Potchefstroom, where it later became: 'the Potchefstroom University for Christian High...

Some Inqua had sought shelter in the South around the Suurveld- seasonal sour Grassland North of later Port Elizabeth. T...

The Living Museum of the Mbunza, a traditional School for Culture and at the same time a Communal Business for the Local...

A great attraction close to Kuboes is 'Cornell's Kop'. This is a Hill that house the largest population of the threatene...

In 1801 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a Station among the Griqua ...

Griqualand West is proclaimed a separate Crown Colony .The discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a f...

The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending Westward...

The OR Tambo District Municipality (ORTDM) occupies the eastern coastal portion of the Eastern Cape Province, bordered b...

Shakaland, situated just 160km north of the city of Durban is a living monument to Zulu culture. It is here that people ...

Adam's Calendar is believed to be one of the oldest man-made structures on Earth. It's sometimes referred to as 'African...

Emgwenya means place of the Crocodile. (Ngwenya, is an Nguni surname meaning the same thing!) Emgwenya, formally Waterva...

The dwelling is a low single-storey structure with few architectural features of note. However it was spacious and well ...

In the Volksrust town square adjacent to the municipal buildings is a Memorial Statue and wall of Remembrance for the Bo...

Winnie Mandela had been banished to Brandfort on the 16 of May 1977. There she was unceremoniously dumped at house 802 w...

The Town of Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga Province, was founded in 1850 by the company of Voortrekker leader Andries Potgiete...

As a result of the new Municipal dispensation introduced by the South African Government, in December 2000. This Municip...

Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977. Believed to be the oldest surviving ‘so...

Diepkloof covers an Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 per...