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Robben Island, Cape Town
26 May 2026
There is a Kramat (holy shrine) on the island dedicated to the Prince of Madura – Pangeran Chakra Deningrat – who died o...
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Kroonstad
31 July 2025
It's name being symbolic of royalty (“Kroon” is Dutch for crown), Kroonstad has very humble beginnings. It was named aft...
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Robben Island Museum
26 February 2025
Robben Island Museum (RIM) is a public entity responsible for managing, maintaining, presenting, developing and marketin...
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Barberton, Mpumalanga
20 November 2024
Barberton, 'The Gold Rush' Town of Mpumalanga
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Burgersdorp, E.C.
11 October 2024
In 1905 the Seminary was moved to Potchefstroom, where it later became: 'the Potchefstroom University for Christian High...
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Victor Verster Prison
22 December 2023
A statue outside this low-security Prison, commemorates former inmate & president Nelson Mandela. One of the proprietor...
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Tokai, Cape Town
10 November 2022
The Suburb of Tokai took its name from Tokaj, a range of Hills in Hungary. It was built in the late 1940's due to the ur...
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Vlakplaas, Pretoria
12 October 2022
Vlakplaas is a Farm about 20-kilometres West of Pretoria. Established in 1979, a 100-hectare Farm nestled in the Hills o...
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Groot Drakenstein Prison
23 June 2022
The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of fr...
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John Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
16 May 2022
In September 1997 it was renamed: "Johannesburg Central Police Station" and still functions as a Police Station, serving...
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Constitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
29 September 2021
The site is a former Prison and military Fort that bears testament to South Africa’s turbulent past and, today, is...
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Fort Glamorgan, East London
7 May 2021
Named a National Monument in 1938, the Building stands within the Glamorgan Prison grounds. Permission from the departme...
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Middledrift, Eastern Cape
24 January 2020
Distance between East London and Middledrift. It takes 1 hours, 52 minutes to travel from East London to Middledrift.
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Kokstad
28 November 2019
The little town of Kokstad sits on the boundary between KwaZulu Natal and the Eastern Cape, nestled in the heart of East...
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Groot Drakenstein
18 April 2019
Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply fr...
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The Old Durban Prison
18 April 2019
The Old Durban Central Prison no longer exists, but it was used extensively during the earlier apartheid perio...
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Pretoria Correctional Service Museum
18 April 2019
The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul Kruger streets, ha...
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Stone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
18 April 2019
This structure probably dates from the 1890s and was built in sandstone in a predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms a...
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Rust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
18 April 2019
Construction of this complex dates from the mid 19th Century and reflects a blending of Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victori...
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The Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
18 April 2019
This Building has since been given over to the National Cultural History Museum. It was declared a National Monument und...
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Queens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
18 April 2019
The Queens Fort Museum fort erected in 1848, originally housed the Artillery Unit of the Free State, and depicts all maj...