The town of Rietbron has its origins in a patch of reeds ...

The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...

The Gereformeerde Kerk is located next to the Methodist Church on the ...

The Gariep Dam is the biggest dam in South Africa. The dam ...

Glen Thorn lies about 26 kilometres north of Adelaide, on the left ...

During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...

The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...

The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...

Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...

The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...

The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...

The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...

Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...

The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...

Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...

The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...

P.W.F. Weyer, a former hawker, who lost cattle in an attack by ...

Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...

Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...

While the discussions about the founding of the Tarkastad DR Church congregation ...

Venterstad was founded on 24 February 1874 and was originally named Ventersburg ...

Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...

Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...

The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...

Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...

The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...

Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...

Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...

The Mill House (Smidstraat) The mill originally belonged to the Dutch Reformed ...

The village of Pearston is situated in the shadow of the Coetzeesberge ...

On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...

The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...

There is a legend that the place was named after British settlers ...

The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...

In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...

The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...

Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...

Soon after the first shots were fired between the Boers and the ...

One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...

The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...

Deep in the Karoo Heartland – along a dirt road and, seemingly, in the ...

In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...

Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...

The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...

This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...

Trim Park, Cradock’s municipal park, was established in 1881 on the banks ...

Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...

The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...

In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...

The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...

THIS PAGE IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS Wesleyan Methodist Church (1842) ...

Tarkastad isn’t a big town with many monuments even though there is ...

The Eastern Cape town of Bedford is famous for its annual Garden ...

Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...

Back in the early 1800s, this area was the eastern border of ...

The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...

Permanent settlement in the district began in 1778. The Van der Walt ...

What is a drostdy? It is the office or residence of a ...

Throughout the Karoo, it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...

There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...

About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...

The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...

The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...

Andreas Gotlieb Schoombee (born 1741) moved to the Cape from Konningsdal in ...

The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...

Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...

The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...

The village of Rosmead near Middelburg wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for ...

Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...

The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...

The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...

The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...