The part of the Gold Reef City complex, was opened in November 2001. The museum illustrating apartheid and the 20th century history of South Africa. The Pillars of the Constitution is the first exhibit. Located in the courtyard, it includes one pillar for each of the seven values that are enshrined tin the South African Constitution: democracy, […]
The Brutalist tower is operated by Johannesburg Water, stands 40 meter tall, and holds nearly 2 million gallons of water for the surrounding community. It was built in 1997 and is located near Grand Central Airport in Midrand. Exceptional water tower, considering its design as a concrete container in the shape of an inverted cone, and also […]
Most of the property lies in the nearby desert and mountains covering more than 322,000 square feet. Many sets from the filming of various movies remain
The tree is 22 metres high and 47 metres in circumference. The trunk diameter was 10.64 metres, and the crown diameter is 30.2 metres. The trunk consists of two connected sections, each with its own enormous hollow, and these are connected by a narrow passage. One third of the Boabab tree collapsed in August 2016. According to […]
Sabratha’s port was established, perhaps about 500 BC, a Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, Sabratha was part of the short-lived Numidian Kingdom of Massinissa before being Romanized and rebuilt in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. The city was badly damaged by earthquakes during the 4th century, particularly […]
One of eleven rock-hewn monolithic churches in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha, the historical and religious site was named Lalibela after the King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned its construction. He is regarded as a saint by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Church of Saint George was carved downwards […]
In the summer of 1969, Kenya lost in a tragic and violent way one of the most fervent and young political minds in the country, a symbol of
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Island, off the coast from Bloubergstrand. It was here in a prison that Mandela would spend eighteen of his twenty-seven years of prison sentence before he would be freed just prior to the fall of apartheid in South Africa. From 1961 to 1991, a maximum-security prison here held […]
