District

When the settlement was founded at the Cape the officials there soon learnt of the existence of, Copper somewhere to the...

Rietfontein is a Town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It functions as...

District Six was a multi working-class area just off the centre of Cape Town, to the South of the Castle. Today it is an...

Vhembe District Municipality with its head quarters in Thohoyandou was established in 2000 through the process of transf...

Curry’s Post is a beautifully scenic area in the heart of the Midlands Meander that lies between Mooi River and Howick. ...

Allemansfontein is a farm in Blue Crane Route Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape

The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlemen...

In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. As refugees from the Mfacane wars further n...

The district takes its name from the mountain of the same name, which is Afrikaans for "clear mountain", referring to th...

Ntabankulu is an isiXhosa word meaning "great or big mountain", since the municipal Area is mountainous in character. Th...

District of which, Harding is the principal town. Encircled by Mount Currie, Umzimkulu, Ixopo, Port Shepstone and Bizane...

Nquthu is an isiZulu name meaning "the back of the head". Umzinyathi District has a total area of 8 079 square Kilomet...

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

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

Gold Reef City is a re-creation of turn-of-the-century Johannesburg, which was flooded by prospectors after the discover...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 April 1971.

Observatory was a residential suburb of Cape Town, and derived its name from the Royal Observatory, which was establishe...

Village some 50 km West of Mossel Bay. It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a Municipality in 192...

Founded in 1743 by the Dutch East India Company, it was named after the Cape Governor, Hendrik Swellengrebe and his wife...

Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa ...

The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered ...

Gouda is a little Village just 37 km South of Porterville, at the Western entrance to the Nuwekloof Pass that links; Tul...

Having been established in 1912, this is the oldest gold mining Town in the District. The Town was a group of Farms with...

The Orrie Baragwanath Pass is a rough dirt road across the Wolkberg mountains in the scenically rich Lekgamaleetse Natur...

Mobeni, is located in KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (formerly Port Natal). The largest City of KwaZulu-Natal Province and chief ...

Ngema Tribal Trust falls under the, Mkhondo Local Municipality Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga , South ...

The Kopanong Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated within the Xhariep District of the Free State Prov...

The Division of Riversdale was originally located on the Eastern boundary of the District of Swellendam, which had been ...

The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on 1 December 1879. Its e...

The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the division...

Carlisle Bridge is a District of Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in the Cacadu Municipality ...

It is bordered by Phumelela in the North, the Kingdom of Lesotho in the South, the KwaZulu-Natal Province in the East, a...

Station of the Berlin Missionary Society in the Uniondale District. Named after the German Missionary- Schmidt.  Wh...

An old Mission Station that takes its name from the nearby stream. The name means 'black water', from Zulu. 

Locality about 6 km North of Sibayeni and 24 km South of Komatipoort. The name is Swanzi for the 'grey rhebuck'. Am...

Railway Station 14km South-East of Stuterheim on route to Kei Road. The name is of Xhosa origin and refers to the A...

A small Community on the Crocodile River, some 18 km from Nelspruit. Named after a city in the Netherlands which is 32 k...

Town in the Victoria East District, on the Tyume River, some 120 km North-West of East London. It was named in 1847...

Early name for the present Venterstad district, Eastern Cape. It was laid out in 1875 and attained municipal status in 1...

Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group...