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Cities in South Africa

  • PietermaritzburgIn April 1838, a group of Voortrekkers occupied the site that would become Pietermaritzburg. This event followed the murder of Piet Retief and his…
  • Cape TownIn 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias arrived at the southern tip of Africa and named it Cape of Storms. He was the first European to reach this…
  • DurbanArchaeological evidence from the Drakensberg mountains suggests that communities of hunter-gatherers inhabited the Durban area since 100,000 years before…
  • JohannesburgIn June 1884, Jan Gerritse Bantjes discovered the main Witwatersrand gold reef on the farm Vogelstruisfontein. This find triggered a massive migration of…