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

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

  The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas ...

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

Rising 61 meters high, the Draaikrans rock formation is a remarkable geological ...

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

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

The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...

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

Bishop Robert Gray’s (the first Anglican Bishop of the Cape of Good ...

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

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

JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...

Tafelberg is one of the best-known landmarks in the Middelburg district. The ...

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

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

An influx of soldiers, farmers and their workers to the Graaff-Reinet district ...

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

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

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

The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) creates a quick shortcut ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spandaukop is located right next to the Valley of Desolation and guards ...

The 20 biblical panels in the hall of the Aberdeen Dutch Reformed ...

The Adelaide War Memorial stands next to the town hall

The tiny hamlet of Norvalspont sits astride the old main road from ...

THIS PAGE IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS Cradock has a number ...

Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...

The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...

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

The Compassberg (2502m) is the highest peak in the Sneeuberg range and ...

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

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

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

Somerset East has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in ...

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

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

Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...

The Cradock Dutch Reformed congregation is the eleventh-oldest congregation of the Dutch ...

Outside Steynsburg are two very well-known Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, two ...

Graaff-Reinet has a number of historic buildings and churches in addition to ...

Standing tall just 8 km outside Cradock, in the wide-open landscapes of ...

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

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

Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Nieu Bethesda has a working network of leivore, or water farrows, with ...

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

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

There’s a very interesting spot near Kendrew. It is the Kalkkop (“lime ...

The hamlet of Vondeling consists of scattered homesteads that house 29 families alongside ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Rothschild* name is globally associated with money and wealth, but did ...

The rich legacy of the Schoombee family lies deep in the whole ...

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

The Great Fish River that runs past Cookhouse formed the eastern boundary ...