Boela Gerber

...A road bike and a mountain bike lean up against a wall, with a fly-fishing rod, waders, and caps...
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Historic Buildings of George

...Its is within walking distance of several shops and restaurants in town, so visitors can immerse themselves in the history of the area. It is a provincial heritage site...
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Nitida

...  At the time, Bernhard was one of the first independent wine farmers in a valley with a history that stretched back to the early 1700s. ln the 20th century, Durbanville was an important yet little-known source of top-class fruit for some of the..
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South African Spas: The Ultimate Relaxation

...Morgan Bay Hotel on the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape is home to the Milkwood Spa, where you’ll be transported into a world consisting of ocean, nature and total relaxation...
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Marion Island: A Living Laboratory

...Occasional seal wallows, fetid with stale water and excrement, are testimony to the nutrients they unload every time they haul out for a break from fishing. Penguin guano comes with its own nasal insult...
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The Last of the San Rock Artists

...appreciate the rich legacy of San rock art, and we owe this wealth of knowledge to those hapless, long-dead prisoners and the patient researchers who recorded their tales.Iziko/The South African Museum in Cape Town has a superb exhibition showcasing this history..
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Meerendal

...historic Meerendal into a delightful food and wine destination in the early 2000s, the farm now owned by one of them, Herman Coertze, with wife Aletta and family building on the farm’s reincarnation as a wine and food visitor oasis.Contemporising History..
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One's Waste, Another's Prize

...These pickers have been working the site for some time now, an informal allegiance to one another giving them power to keep outsiders at bay. The interloper does not argue, plead or try to negotiate...
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The Mild Wild West Coast

...At the upper end of the market, you could choose to ensconce yourself in the luxuriousness of Blue Bay Lodge situated right on the Atlantic surf line - this fully catered guesthouse offers safe swimming, an excellent base for flower watching and superb..
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Delheim

...long been enjoyed.The Sperling Footprint©David RogersDelheim’s late patriarch Spatz Sperling and wife Vera on Delheim’s high-lying mountain land.On 19 April 1951 Michael Sperling, a 20-year-old German of aristocratic descent, disembarked in Table Bay..
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The British Embark to the Cape

...The British said ‘sure’ and quickly dispatched a small armada of ships to the Cape, to prevent that Corsican upstart from taking control of Table Bay and the sea route to the East...
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Benefits and Uses of Mushrooms

...Some of the mushrooms credited with success against cancer are the Agaricus species (brown and button mushroom), the wild mushroom - bay bolete, enoki, Lactarius mushrooms (‘milkcaps’), the species of brightly coloured Russula genus and many..
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Citrusdal Hot Springs

...The history of The Baths is quite interesting...
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Prisoner Mandela by Raymond Louw

...the temerity to suggest to his jailers that they surrender the power they wielded and acquiesce in a process that could have only one outcome: the handing over of authority to the people they had oppressed.Civil Chaos AvertedThe alternative was what history..
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Rustenberg

...Rustenberg’s history, dating back to the late 17th century, is steeped in not only English tradition, but also the Cape Dutch influences on wine farming and architecture in South Africa...
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Urbanisation in South Africa

...By 2007, for the first time in human history, over half the world’s population got up to breakfast each day somewhere within the folds of a cityscape...
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UNESCO and The Cradle of Humankind

...To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history...
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Pinot Noir

...Together with the shift to the production of quality wines, these new clones resulted in many new regions also producing the variety, including Elgin, Doring Bay and Franschoek...
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Niels Verburg

...Upstairs, built onto a rocky outcrop with views of fynbos, vineyards, wheatfields and the distant Bot River lagoon on Walker Bay, is the indoor/outdoor tasting room with its eye-catching floor of old Luddite barrel ends set in black resin...
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The Mapungubwe Collection

...Public interest in the collection grew exponentially with the new dispensation, and we had a desire to reclaim our history from the clutches of apartheid. New symbols were sought which spoke of a proud African past...
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Real Life Story: The Life of a Miner

...His face is occasionally stern, sometimes impassive as he slouches into his folded arms, giving a bulleted summary of his history on the mines...
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Red Tides and Climate Change

...All that remains is the noxious smell of rotten eggs and a sterile bay. Life here will eventually recover but in its own measured time...
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Western Cape Climate

...These conditions can prove most exciting - not to mention the fantastic photographic opportunities provided by the dramatic and changing light conditions.Cold Fronts©Roger de la HarpeA cold front in Hout Bay harbour, Cape Town.Most people presume..
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Johan Malan

...Johan MalanJohan MalanCellarmasters in the KitchenThe essence of Johan Malan is to be found in the family's solitary little holiday cabin tucked away in a cove at Cape Hangklip on the False Bay coast...
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Visiting Bird Island in Lamberts Bay

...Much of the island’s surface seethed with fowl, as though the very ground were alive.The Gannetry©Roger de la HarpeBird Island in Lamberts Bay, a vital breeding colony for Cape gannets...
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