Well-developed Tourism Infrastructure
Potchefstroom has the longest avenue of oak trees in South Africa. The city hall is a wonderfully fanciful mixture of neo-classical and art-nouveau influences. The university (PUK) campus is beautiful and the students give the town a bit of edginess.
The Dutch Reformed Church is the oldest existing church north of the Vaal Triangle. There’s a lovely bird sanctuary. Potch is home to South Africa’s biggest crayon factory. The Tlokwe malt and sorghum brewery is said to be the biggest in the world, etc.
Potchefstroom has a well-developed tourism infrastructure and offers visitors every convenience. As the first town in the Transvaal, Potchefstroom also has a long history which is displayed in several interesting museums.
These include the main museum, gallery and library complex in Gouws Street, the Martinus Wessels Pretorius House (the restored homestead of the president of the ZAR), the Goetz/Fleischack Museum (a rather grand Victorian house museum) and the Totius House Museum (displaying memorabilia from the popular Afrikaans poet and translator of the bible, Jacob du Toit).
Jacob du Toit, by the way, had an intimate connection with the Vredefort Dome and did much of his work in a small cottage, hidden away in the folds of the mountains.
This farm house is currently being restored. Another prominent Afrikaans poet, CM van den Heever, also used to visit the Vredefort Dome for inspiration.