Arguably the oldest church in Cradock and definitely the oldest church building ...

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

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

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

Tarkastad Freemasons Lodge This little stone building next to the Presbyterian Church ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...

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

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

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

Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...

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

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

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

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

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

On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...

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

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

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

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

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

The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...

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

Bishop Gray’s fIrst visit to Cradock was in 1848. After a brief ...

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

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

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

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

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

For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Union Monument is located on the top of Magazine Hill. The ...

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

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

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

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

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

Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...

The first Dutch farmers settled in the Tarkastad district in 1795 and ...

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

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

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

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

Somerset East is rich in history and in addition to the monuments ...

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

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

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

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

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