In 1849 Aliwal North was established as an administrative centre for the recently annexed territory north of the Stormberg Mountains. It was named for the…
Barkly East, the “Switzerland of South Africa”, lies on the edge of the Kraai River Gorge in the Drakensberg. This town, one of the coldest and highest in…
Burgersdorp, situated in the northern foothills of the Stormberg Mountain Range, was established in 1846 as a new parish of the Dutch Reformed Church of…
Originally named after the wife of Sir Henry Bartle Frere, the then Governor of the Cape, the town’s name was changed to “Cacadu”, name of a nearby river,…
Cradock, the “Capital of the Midlands”, was founded in 1814, on the farm Buffelskloof. It was named after Sir John Cradock, who, realising the need to…
The picturesque little town of Dordrecht was established in 1856 as a Dutch Reformed parish and named after the town of the same name in the Netherlands.…
Stunning views of the Drakensberg Mountain Range await visitors to this small village. The village was named after a previous Chief Magistrate of Tembuland,…
Originally called Maraisburg, this town was established in 1873 and renamed after Jan Hofmeyr, a linguist and champion of the Afrikaans language.
Indwe is the Xhosa word for blue crane, the graceful birds that have made the area around this town their home. The town lies at the foot of the picturesque…
This town was established in 1874 on the farm of one Johannes Jacobus Wagenaar, fondly referred to as “James”, by his English friends. And, it is by this…
