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Dullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
21 May 2026
The cooler conditions make perfect Hiking conditions or whether you just enjoy strolls along the riverbanks or stretchin...
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Muizenberg and Marina da Gama
20 May 2026
The Village of Muizenberg was established by the Dutch in 1743 as a Military Post, and was located in False Bay, on the ...
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Darters Pass, Northern Cape
13 March 2026
Darters Pass is one of those official Passes that leaves you wondering if you're in the right place. The Pass has only o...
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Stikland Cemetery
28 November 2025
In a 1947 letter to the Cape Town Clerk and to the secretary of the Board of Trustees to the Cape Peninsula Cemeteries r...
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Old Fort and Cemetery, Durban
20 October 2025
The Old Fort and Durban's first cemetery are situated in Umgeni Road, and are now an integral part of the city centre. T...
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Eldorado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto
1 August 2025
District located in the Province of Gauteng, near Johannesburg. Since 1973 there has been extensive expansion of the Are...
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Isandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu
31 March 2025
Nquthu is an isiZulu name meaning "the back of the head". Umzinyathi District has a total area of 8 079 square Kilomet...
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Vryburg, Bophirima Region
17 February 2025
Vryburg lies on the N14, due West of the Towns of Klerksdorp and Orkney - as in 'Orkney Snork Nie' (Orkney doesn't snore...
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Harrismith, Free State
8 December 2023
Harrismith is a small, charming country town, founded in 1849, but discovered by tourists only recently. Visitors remark...
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Dal Josafat, Paarl
20 October 2023
Kleinbosch has close connections with the Afrikaans language and its origins. It was the birthplace of Stephanus Jacobus...
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Middleburg, Eastern Cape
5 May 2023
Grootfontein was established in 1911 and, as one of the oldest Agricultural Colleges in South Africa, it has a proud tra...
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Old Durban Brook Street Cemetery
24 November 2021
The historical cemetery has been encompassed by West Street Cemetery, lying in its far western corner, closest to Berea ...
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Prestwich Memorial and Garden
20 September 2021
During excavations for a new residential block in Cape Town in 2003, old bones were uncovered!
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Keilands Catholic Mission Station, Eastern Cape
29 October 2020
"Keilands Catholic Mission Station- Established 1886 along the banks of the Great Kei in a remote valley, between Cathca...
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Cookhouse, Eastern Cape
29 October 2020
The Village of Cookhouse was located on the Farm; 'Roodewal', near a River crossing. It probably derived its name from a...
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Avalon Cemetery, Soweto
1 September 2020
On the Southern edge of one of the Country’s most famous townships, Soweto, lies the equally Historic Avalon Cemetery.
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Gardens Shul in Cape Town
23 April 2020
The Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, which built the Great Synagogue, was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney...
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Groote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
8 April 2020
There is probably no building in South Africa that is better known than the Groote Kerk. Jan van Riebeeck brought the Re...
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Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
9 September 2019
A Suburb of Johannesburg about 5 km East of City Hall, South of Observatory Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes i...
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Mzilikazi Memorial, situated at Phokeng, near Rustenburg
18 April 2019
Mzilikazi Memorial. Mzilikazi died on 5th September 1868 following a long period of ill health, but his death was...
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Irene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
18 April 2019
Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps t...
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Riverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
18 April 2019
The Mosque was erected by the celebrated Hajee Soofie who immigrated to South Africa in 1895. He was responsible for the...
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St Paul’s Anglican Church, Main Road, Rondebosch
18 April 2019
The land upon which this church was erected was granted by Governor Sir Lowrie Cole on 30 August 1832. The original neo-...
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St Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
18 April 2019
St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviou...