Western Cape

Father Joseph Kentenich was born in 1885, near Cologne in Germany. On October 18, 1914, he dared to take the first step ...

The story of the Huguenot Memorial Museum is quite fascinating, and lends the building and its contents a certain charm ...

Lying but two hours' drive from Cape Town, Redelinghuys is known as the potato Capital of the Sandveld. It lies on the R...

the institution has humble beginnings in the amulgamation of Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon, which dates back to...

The Olifant's River meanders through the Valley bringing life to the surrounding Area. Without the water this beautiful ...

Nelson Mandela Charles Beck wine estate

The Old Biscuit Mill is a vibrant hub of art, design, and food, right in the heart of Woodstock. It’s the capital of coo...

The existence of the Berg River was first recorded by Bailiff Abraham Gabbema in 1657. He was sent by Governor Jan Van R...

Situated on the Northern slope of Table Mountain is a must see Memorial too Cecil John Rhodes. Behind the Memorial lies ...

The Theewaterskloof Dam is one of the features of Villiersdorp, and is significant for being the seventh-largest dam in ...

Magnet Theatre is an independent physical theatre company founded in 1987 in order to produce Jennie Reznek’s first one-...

Having been established 20 years ago, the Barnyard Theatre family is no stranger to hosting some of the best local bands...

In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were jailed or ban...

Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter, the Bo-K...

The railway line from Cape Town reached Maitland on 13 February 1862.

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

Early Dutch Settlers soon realised that Hout Bay could serve as an alternative anchorage when prevailing winds made Tabl...

Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town and the famous Natural Table Mountain. ...

A Little Piece of Ocean Paradise. Oudekraal beach offers beautiful sea views and calm waters. Oudekraal Beach, part of t...

This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the Grand parade, west of t...

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

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...

Audrey Blignault, the famous South African writer, was born in Bredasdorp. Located on the Northern edge of the Agulhas P...

Housed in what was once Cape Town’s tallest building is the newly unveiled Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeit...

This Museum gives visitors from around the World a chance to look back on more than 100 years of motoring History.

The little Village of Ashton is famous for its; Fruit, Wine and Rose Nurseries. Ashton originally served as a Settlement...

The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of fr...

YMCA Cape Town is the oldest YMCA in Africa. It was established in 1865 as a Christian “home away from home” residence f...

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

The Village of Hanover Park was incorporated on August 14, 1958, into Cape Town. It had a population of 305.

It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34 km south-west of Mossel Bay. The bridge swing and bung...

next door to Church

This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and rugged mountain drives, in the Langeberg! (This Pass is in the Top 20 ...

The origins of the Naval Museum date back to 1966 when a naval Historical collection was displayed at the Castle Militar...

In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located i...