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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The town of KwaDukuza was originally the site of King Shaka’s kraal and so the history of the town has strong links to the Zulu king. In the middle of town is the King Shaka Visitor Center which houses one important item related to Shaka. The first is the rock that he was sitting on when he was […]
