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Eshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
1 June 2026
Eshowe actually means Ekowe, the place of Mushrooms. Esikhowe seNkosi uCetshwayo! gqokli-hill-battlefield-This is the si...
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Wellington, Western Cape
28 May 2026
The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town, 15-minutes’ from neighbouring Paarl and 3...
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McGregor, Western Cape
28 May 2026
McGregor, often called the village that time forgot, is a tranquil Victorian town with whitewashed cottages, gardens and...
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Moorreesburg
28 May 2026
The land has been used for large-scale wheat farming for most of its history and has become known as the breadbasket of ...
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Greyton, Western Province
28 May 2026
The village of Greyton was established in 1852, although the first plots of land were only sold in 1854.
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Rabula
21 April 2026
The Village of Rabula was named after the Xhosa "ukurabula"-'a term given to a child when it becomes irritable'. Rabu...
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Vissershok Farm
8 April 2026
Vissershok is one of the oldest farms in South Africa and was home to the country's first wheat farm. Tucked along the b...
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Ixopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal- Midlands
4 March 2026
The C J Rhodes 1870 National Heritage Site is situated on a Farm, in the Umkamaas Valley. This is where Cecil John Rhode...
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Clarens, Eastern Free State
2 March 2026
Clarens, a small town situated in the Eastern Free State is today a tourist attraction and capital of everything from ad...
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Kommetjie, Cape Town
2 March 2026
Kommetjie is a village with a unique and special blend of beach, mountains, sea, nature and surf… Beautiful to live in, ...
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Durbanville
19 February 2026
The site currently known as Durbanville was originally called: 'Pampoen Kraal'. On 2 September 1836 it was renamed D'Urb...
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Zonnebloem College, Cape Town
18 February 2026
The farm Zonnebloem (sunflower) by controversial Cape Governor Sir George Grey. educated the sons and daughters of chief...
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Ysterplaat, Cape Town
9 January 2026
Ysterplaat is an old Northern Suburb of Cape Town and home to an Airforce Base, School's and a Museum; amongst many Chur...
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Calitzdorp, Route 62
6 January 2026
Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and l...
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Kenhardt
6 January 2026
Kenhardt has been for a long time the most remote Settlement in the North-Western Cape, founded 1868. Becoming a Municip...
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Allemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape
10 December 2025
Allemansfontein is a farm in Blue Crane Route Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape
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Prince Albert
21 November 2025
Founded in 1762, Prince Albert's History is deeply rooted in South African Heritage. The Town was originally known as: '...
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Bethal
19 November 2025
Established in 1880, Bethal is a small farming town. Farming in potatoes, maize, sunflower seeds, sorghum and rye. There...
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St-Albans College, Pretoria
13 November 2025
The historic private school in South Africa run by a famous cricketer for 20 years-Anton Murray. The school was first op...
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Worcester, Western Cape
6 November 2025
Worcester is a Town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is located 120 Kilometers North-East of Cape Town. This River ...
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Rosebank, Cape Town
3 November 2025
Rosebank is a residential suburb of Cape Town, located between Mowbray and Rondebosch. The railway line from Salt River ...
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Robertson, Route 62
27 October 2025
The settlement was named after Dr William Robertson, the first DRC Minister in Clanwilliam, and up to 1857 it affairs we...
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Mapungubwe
6 October 2025
Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, 75 km fr...
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Bokoni, Mpumalanga
3 October 2025
Oral traditions recorded in the early twentieth Century named the Area Bokoni – the Country of the Koni people!
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Klein Karoo
5 September 2025
The Klein Karoo (Little Karoo) is a spectacular 350 kilometre long Valley stretching from Montagu in the West to Unionda...
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Grabouw
29 August 2025
A Post Office was opened at Palmiet River on 1 January 1846, and was probably located at a ford where a small bridge, kn...
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Groot Constantia, Constantia Valley
18 August 2025
The Groot Constantia estate was formerly part of the farm Constantia, which was granted to Simon van der Stel in 1685. T...
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Bergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
18 August 2025
This farm complex consists of a Cape Dutch house built in 1769, and a ring wall and outbuildings which were erected towa...
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Newlands
12 August 2025
In 1700, Governor Willem van der Stel was granted land some 9km outside Cape Town, which he named 'De Nieuwe Land' or 'N...
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Witberg Wind Farm
30 July 2025
The Witberg Wind Farm is located between Touws River and Laingsburg in Western Cape. Witberg Wind Farm is a 108MW onshor...
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Calvinia
12 July 2025
Abraham Esau, a patriotic Coloured blacksmith who was loyal to the British. He gathered a force of 70 locals to defend t...
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Humansdorp
10 July 2025
Humansdorp has grown from a small Town in 1849, with the purpose of serving the Farming community. These days it has flo...
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Brackenfell, Cape Town
19 June 2025
In 1901 Andries Brink sold a portion of his farm Kruispad to George Henry Walton, a Scottish immigrant, who named his pu...
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Fort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
13 June 2025
Fort Beaufort is situated in the Eastern Cape Province. The town is surrounded by magnificent mountain ranges and it is ...
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Potchefstroom
9 June 2025
The name comes from the word: 'Potscherf'- (meaning broken pot), Due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi R...
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Bethlehem, Free State
4 June 2025
Bethlehem is located on the N5 road to the Free State provincial capital Bloemfontein via Senekal and Winburg to the N1....
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Oudtshoorn, Western Cape
24 April 2025
The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in abou...
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Haartbeespoort
14 April 2025
Hartbeespoort, informally also known as: "Harties". is a small resort town north of Johannesburg in the North West Provi...
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Noordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
3 April 2025
Chapman’s Bay is therefore one of the oldest place names, in South Africa.
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Warden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
26 March 2025
The N3 passes right through Warden on the route between Johannesburg and Durban, just north of Harrismith. It is thus mo...
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