Articles in South Africa ( 1,729 )

1,729 Articles of interest in South Africa

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  • UKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park

    The uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park is a World Heritage Site in Southern Africa, covering 242,813 ha (2,428 km2) of area. The park spans parts of both South Africa, in its KwaZulu-Natal province, and Lesotho.

  • Sebokeng

    Sebokeng is a township in southern Gauteng, South Africa near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark (located in the district municipality of Sedibeng and the local municipality of Emfuleni).

  • Philippi, Cape Town

    Philippi is one of the larger townships in Cape Town, South Africa, although the exact size is unknown. Regarding to the 2011 Census approx. 191,000 people live in Philippi. The township is relatively new.

  • Kearsney College

    Kearsney College is a private boarding school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town that lies between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa.

  • Johannesburg Zoo

    The Johannesburg Zoo is an 55-hectare (140-acre) zoo in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1904, it has traditionally been owned and operated by the City of Johannesburg.

  • Jacaranda 94.2

    Jacaranda FM, previously known as Jacaranda 94.2, is a commercial South African radio station, broadcasting in English and Afrikaans, with a footprint that covers Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the North West Province and boasts a listening audien…

  • Hazyview

    Hazyview is a small farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is renowned for its banana industry. Close to Kruger National Park, the town's name is derived from the shimmering haze that occurs during the heat of summer.

  • Deneys Reitz

    Deneys Reitz (1882—1944), son of Francis William Reitz, was a Boer soldier, later a South African soldier in the First World War, and a politician.

  • Delmas, Mpumalanga

    Delmas is a small farming town situated east of Johannesburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town is located some 19 km north-east of Springs and 73 km south-east of Pretoria.

  • Coega

    The Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) covering 110 km² of land, is situated within the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality near Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The initiative is a multibillion-dollar industri…

  • Battle of Modder River

    The Battle of Modder River (known in Afrikaans as Slag van die Twee Riviere, which translates as "Battle of the two rivers") was an engagement in the Boer War, fought at Modder River, on 28 November 1899. A British column under Lord Methuen, that wa…

  • Wolmaransstad

    Wolmaransstad (Afrikaans for "Wolmarans City") is a maize-farming town situated on the N12 between Johannesburg and Kimberley in North West Province of South Africa.

  • Vosloorus

    Vosloorus is a large township situated south of Boksburg and just east of Katlehong in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1963 when Black Africans were removed from Stirtonville because it was consider…

  • Swartberg

    The Swartberg mountains (black mountain in Afrikaans) are a mountain range in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is composed of two main mountain chains running roughly east-west along the northern edge of the semi-arid Little Karoo. To t…

  • Skukuza

    Skukuza is the administrative headquarters and main camp of the Kruger National Park, it is situated on the southern banks of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga Province. Skukuza was given by the local Tsonga people as a nickname for James Stevenson-Hami…

  • Pretoria railway station

    Pretoria railway station is the central station in Pretoria, the executive capital of South Africa. It is located between Pretoria's central business district and Salvokop, in a 1910 building designed by Herbert Baker. It is the terminus of various …

  • Ottery, Cape Town

    Ottery is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa. It is on the edge of the Southern Suburbs. The Youngsfield Military Base, Royal Cape Golf Club and Cape Town's 'official' China Town are located in the suburb. Every year the Youngsfield Military Base i…

  • Mdantsane

    Mdantsane is a South African township situated between East London and King William's Town in the Eastern Cape province. It houses the second biggest shopping mall in the Eastern Cape Province (Mdantsane City and open since April 2008). The original…

  • List of museums in South Africa

    This list of museums in South Africa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific,…

  • Groblersdal

    Groblersdal is a farming town situated 32 km north of the 178 million m³ Loskop Dam in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo.

  • Grabouw

    Grabouw is a mid-sized town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa some 65 km south-east of Cape Town along the N2 highway.

  • Canal Walk

    Canal Walk is a shopping centre in Cape Town, South Africa, that opened in 2000 and was built around a canal. It has a total retail area of 141,000-square-metre (1,520,000 sq ft). The centre forms the heart of a mixed-use development known as Centur…