The longest promenade in Africa is situated in Durban, but a key aspect about the one-of-a-kind emblem of hallmark architecture, is that it is around 8 kilometres in overall length. Durban’s promenade stretches from the...
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According to Mofaya’s co-founder, Siphiwe Shongwe, the name behind Mofaya stems from a Kenyan dance play done in theaters called MO FAYA. The purpose of the dance show isn’t to benefit organizers of the concert but...
The Kruger National Park was first established by the President of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger in 1898 after realising that the lowveld animals needed to be protected, the area between the sabie and crocodile rivers was set aside...
South Africa was home to a ground tracking station at Hartebeesthoek that played a role in Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon in the 1960s. The Hartebeesthoek radio astronomy observatory (Hartrao) is a national research...
The majority of the South Africa’s gold resources are located in the Witwatersrand basin, one of the world’s largest gold placer deposits. This underground geological formation surfacing in the Witwatersrand is a 56...
The V&A Waterfront is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Africa. As part of South Africa’s oldest working harbour, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront receives in excess of 20 million visitors a year, with...
The Portuguese mariner, Bartolomeu Dias, was the first European to explore the coastline of South Africa in 1488, which showed there was a viable way to reach India. Vasco Da Gama rounded the Cape again on the 22nd november 1497...
Cape Town, the Mother City is the oldest City in South Africa and therefore boasts many of the oldest places and buildings. Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company braved the cape of storms by ship in 1652 and it...
The oldest licensed hotel in South Africa is located at Houw Hoek (80kms from Cape Town) and was built in 1779 in the days of the Dutch East India Company. It was originally the site of a toll gate on the wagon road to the...
The Perseverance Tarven in Cape Town was established in 1808 which makes it the oldest Tarven in South Africa.