This charming small town, whose name means “River of Pools”, started as a cattle post for the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth century. The…
Langa, meaning “Sun” in Xhosa, is Cape Town’s oldest black township established to house local black people who were evicted from their homes from 1923 to…
This true African township lies on the N2 just outside Somerset West on the road to the Garden Route and Hermanus. Lwandle was established in 1958 to house…
The Muslim faith is alive and well in the Western Cape and regular pilgrimages are undertaken to Macassar where one of the kramats (shrines) of this faith…
The fashionable Newlands suburb lies on the upper reaches of the Liesbeeck River. The seventeenth-century Dutch Governor Adriaan van der Stel built his…
This residential area is named after the SA Astronomical Observatory and lies east of the city centre between the Liesbeeck and Black Rivers. The area is…
Oostenberg (“East of the Mountain”) is surrounded by vine-covered hills and is bordered by the winelands to the east and Cape Town to the west. The historic…
Pella is a historical little village, which came into existence during the 1830s when a Moravian Mission Station was built on a farm that was once known as…
This secluded upmarket suburb developed on what was originally the farm Uitvlugt. The Zulu King Cetshwayo was detained on this farm after the 1879 Anglo…
The Rondebosch suburb with its lovely gardens and trees was originally called Ronde Bosjen (Round Bushes) and Rosebank owes its name to a nineteenth-century…
