Victoria West
On the N12, 63 km north of the Three Sisters turn-off and 98 km south of Britstown Established in 1843 and named after Queen Victoria of England. Victoria West marks the beginning of the Diamond Way, lying on the main route from Cape Town to Kimberley. In 1866 diamond fever was sparked with the discovery [...]
Vanderkloof
Vanderkloof Dam (previously the PK le Roux Dam) is situated 130km downstream of Gariep dam on the Orange River. It forms the second largest storage reservoir in South Africa with a capacity of over 3 200 million m3. The dam forms an integral component of the Orange River Project (together with Gariep Dam) and supplies [...]
Hanover
This attractive and historic little town on the N1 lies more or less halfway between Cape Town, Gauteng, and KwaZulu Natal. It was established in 1854 at the base of some rocky hills on the farm Petrusvallei, which was bought from Gert Gous. Gous requested that the town be called Hanover, after his great grandfather’s [...]
Richmond
The town of Richmond was founded in 1845 and was named after the Duke of Richmond by his son-in-law, the British governor, Sir. Peregrine Maitland. This was the birthplace of the South African medical pioneet Dr. Emil Hoffa, who founded science of orthopedics. Richmond was also the scene of several battles during the Anglo-Boer War. [...]
Britstown
The first inhabitants of this area were the /Xam (Bushmen). These tiny, self-sufficient people depended entirely on the land for their needs. The plains teemed with game, so they neither sowed nor kept livestock. Indigenous plants provided a variety of edible bulbs and bark for further nutritional and medicinal requirements. The small haven of Britstown [...]
De Aar
The name De Aar refers to the underground water supply occurring in arteries. The name De Aar was given to a property first surveyed in September 1837, and subdivided in 1839. The subdivision, purchased by Jan Gabriel Vermeulen, was named De Aar for a strong perennial spring there. Surveys carried out in 1881 identified this [...]
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