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Cape Town, Western Province

Cape Town, Western Province

Cape Town is a modern City with high-rise office Buildings and pedestrian Malls. Although it is a major Political and Ec...

Johannesburg, Gauteng Province

Johannesburg, Gauteng Province

Joburg, the Economic powerhouse of Africa, was founded in the heydays of one of the World's biggest and richest gold rus...

Gqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay

Gqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay

Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an ...

Cairo, Capital City of Egypt

Cairo, Capital City of Egypt

It is also the 19th largest City in the world and among the world's most densely populated Cities! 

Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. Construction work o...

Pretoria, now known as Tshwane

Pretoria, now known as Tshwane

Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital, was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius and named for his father, An...

Windhoek, Capital City of Namibia

Windhoek, Capital City of Namibia

The Independence Memorial Museum (IMM) is dedicated to the country's anti-colonial and independence struggle. The museum...

KuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape

KuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape

9 February 2026

East London, Afrikaans Oos-Londen, port city, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. It lies at the mouth of the Buffalo R...

Vanderbijlpark

14 January 2026

Vanderbijlpark is South of Johannesburg, on the banks of the Vaal River. It is considered an industrial city in the Gaut...

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)

Witwatersrand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Water...

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State

Mangaung is a Sesotho name meaning "place of Cheetahs". Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were st...

Kingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban

Kingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban

Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZul...

St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town (also known as the: 'Parish of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt'

St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town (also known as the: 'Parish of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt'

22 December 2025

German architect Carl Otto Hager. Hager had designed numerous Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa including the NG M...

Ermelo

11 November 2025

Ermelo is in the Gert Sibande District in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is part of the Msukaligwa Local Mu...

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and East London

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and East London

28 October 2025

East London is nicknamed "Buffalo City" due to its location at the mouth of the Buffalo River. The River flows through t...

Newcastle

22 October 2025

Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu Natal and shares its name...

Grahamstown, now known as Makhanda

Grahamstown, now known as Makhanda

9 September 2025

GRAHAMSTOWN HAS BEEN RENAMED MAKHANDA Within a few decades Grahamstown was the most important city in the Cape Colony af...

Edward Hotel, Durban

Edward Hotel, Durban

4 September 2025

This beachfront Hotel on Durban North Beach provides a great base from which to explore the many beautiful and exciting ...

Keetmanshoop

1 September 2025

In 1908, Gottlieb Redecker was the official builder of the German Colonial Government’s Works Department, drew up plans ...

Eastern Cape Province

Eastern Cape Province

Before 1993, the Eastern Cape was part of the Cape Province. Today it includes the old homelands of Ciskei and Transkei....

Upington, Northern Cape

Upington, Northern Cape

Upington is the chief City in the Northern Region of South Africa. It was established on the bank of the Orange River in...

Kroonstad

It's name being symbolic of royalty (“Kroon” is Dutch for crown), Kroonstad has very humble beginnings. It was named aft...

Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley, Northern Cape

Siege of KimberleyThe siege of the diamond-mining town in the north-west of South Africa, between 14th October 1899 and ...

Polokwane

Polokwane is the capital city of Limpopo. Where the youth uprising occures in Soweto in 1976. 

Nelspruit

A quaint little town, near the Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a World Cup Stadium. This stadium ...

uMnambithi was called Ladysmith

uMnambithi was called Ladysmith

Ladysmith is located on the banks of KwaZulu-Natal's Klip River. Proclaimed in 1850, it was named after the Spanish wife...

Bloemfontein, Capital City of the Free State Province

Bloemfontein, Capital City of the Free State Province

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to English parents.

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...

Llandudno

30 September 2024

Llandudno is a residential suburb of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. There are no shops or comm...

Lamu, Kenya

Lamu Island is a Port, City, and Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mo...

Philip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town

Philip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town

The Road was originally named after Nicolaas de Waal, the first administrator of the Cape Province. He initiated the Roa...

Nelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg

Nelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg

The Nelson Mandela Bridge is a relatively new addition to the Johannesburg skyline, but has already gained iconic status...

Welkom

An Industrial and Commercial heartland, the City derived its name after the Farm; Welkom and was founded in 1948 by Sir ...

Vereeniging, a City in Gauteng

Vereeniging, a City in Gauteng

Vereeniging is a City in Gauteng Province, South Africa, with a population of more than 350,000. Lying on the banks of t...

Al-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town

Al-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town

The Al Azhar Mosque is an Islamic mosque in District Six, Cape Town. It holds the same name as a rather resplendent more...

Chantelle, Akasia- a Suburb of Pretoria

Chantelle, Akasia- a Suburb of Pretoria

22 September 2020

It is situated to the North-West of Pretoria Central and South-West of the suburb, Akasia. It falls in the jurisdiction ...

Algiers, Capital of Algeria

Algiers, Capital of Algeria

Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is...

Albertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg

Albertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg

Suburb of Johannesburg adjoining Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named...