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1,729 Articles of interest in South Africa

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  • Duduza

    Duduza is a township west of Nigel on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1964 when Africans were resettled from Charterston because it was considered by the apartheid government to be too close to a white town.

  • Du Toitskloof Pass

    Du Toitskloof Pass (English: Du Toit's Gap) is situated in the Western Cape province of South Africa, on the Regional road R101 between Paarl and Worcester. The pass was named after Francois Du Toit, a 17th-century Huguenot pioneer who settled in th…

  • Danie Craven Stadium

    Danie Craven Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at Coetzenburg in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It is part of the Stellenbosch University's sport facilities. The stadium was named after rugby doyen and Springbok scrum half Danie Craven.

  • Cedara College of Agriculture

    Cedara College of Agriculture is an agricultural college and research station near Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, founded partly by Thomas Robertson Sim. The foundation stone of the "School of Agriculture and Forestry" was laid on 28 April 190…

  • Cannon Rocks

    Cannon Rocks is a small seaside town on the Indian Ocean in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, between Boknes and the boundary of the Greater Addo Elephant Park. It is situated 135 km to the east of Port Elizabeth and 180 km west of East Londo…

  • Brightwater Commons

    Brightwater Commons (formerly the Randburg Waterfront), located in Ferndale, Randburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa, is an entertainment, restaurant and shopping centre in Johannesburg.

  • Bridge House School

    Bridge House School, situated in the Cape Winelands close to Franschhoek, Stellenbosch and Paarl, is an independent day / boarding school for over seven hundred girls and boys from Grade 0000 to Grade 12.

  • Blackheath train accident

    The Blackheath train accident occurred at 7:03 a.m. on 25 August 2010 when a Metrorail commuter train crashed into a minibus taxi on the Buttskop Road level crossing in Blackheath, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. The minibus was carrying fourte…

  • Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781)

    The Battle of Saldanha Bay was a naval action that occurred off the Dutch Cape Colony on 21 July 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. A squadron of Royal Navy warships under the command of commodore George Johnstone captured five Dutch East India…

  • Battle of Boomplaats

    The Battle of Boomplaas (also referred to as the Battle of Boomplaats) was fought near Jagersfontein at (29°50′39.18″S25°36′11.42″E) on 29 August 1848 between the British and the Boers. The British were led by Sir Harry Smith, while the Boers were …

  • Babanango

    Babanango is the name of a hill, a stream and a settlement situated in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. There are many versions of where the name Babanango originates from, the common accepted origin comes from the Zulu words 'baba nango'.

  • Avalon Cemetery

    Avalon Cemetery is one of the largest graveyards in South Africa. It was opened in 1972, during the height of apartheid, as a graveyard exclusively for blacks. More than 300,000 people are buried on its 430 acres (1.7 km2), the graves less than two …

  • Zeekoevlei

    Zeekoevlei is a major freshwater lake on the Cape Flats near Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The name means "hippopotamus lake," with "vlei" being Dutch for "lake", and "zeekoe" (i.e.

  • Groot Winterhoek

    The Groot Winterhoek mountains are located in the Western Cape province of South Africa and are part of the Cape Fold Belt. They rise to a maximum height of 2077m just north of the town of Tulbagh as Groot Winterhoek peak.

  • White Umfolozi River

    The White Umfolozi River originates just south of Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and joins the Black Umfolozi River at (28°20′58″S31°58′46″E) to form the Umfolozi River, before it flows east towards the Indian Ocean.