Limpopo
At the back of the tourism association, this museum recounts local history, with a focus on the town’s development after Voortrekkers founded it in 1852.
Must-see attractions in Southern Africa
Northern Mozambique
This handsome neoclassical edifice dates from 1633, when it was founded by the Capuchins. The neoclassicism is the result of a early-19th-century refurb.
Botswana
Tuli Block’s most famous feature is Solomon’s Wall, a 30m-high basalt dyke cut naturally through the landscape on either side of the sandy riverbed.
Western Cape
Spread over three buildings, the museum is largely devoted to local hero Dr Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart transplant.
Cape Town
One of the final projects of Sir Herbert Baker, completed in 1913. Pop inside to see some of the original fittings in the domed central banking hall.
SANCCOB Sea Bird Rehabilitation Centre
Sunshine Coast
This haven for endangered African penguins is funded entirely by donations. You can adopt a penguin that will be cared for and released when healthy.
Durban
This palm-lined square outside City Hall is named after the founder of the Port Natal colony and is where Fynn and Farewell made their camp in 1824.
Western Cape
Sitting beneath the train station, this eerie place is a right old jumble sale, containing everything from trophy heads to a collection of commodes.
German Evangelical Lutheran Church
Swakopmund
This neo-baroque church was built in 1906 to accommodate the growing Lutheran congregation of Dr Heinrich Vedde – it still holds regular services.
Pemba
At the Paquitequete neighbourhood’s northern edge is a small fish market – it's a good place to drink in a bit of the local Mozambican spirit.
Durban
On the eastern side of the main post office on Dr Pixley KaSeme St (West St) is Church Sq, with its old vicarage and the 1909 St Paul’s Church.
Mirrors Gallery & Crystal Corner
Eastern Cape
Mirrors has a magical 180-sq-metre garden with a stone circle and labyrinth, a gallery of owner Ken's landscape photography, and a crystal shop.
Eastern Cape
Marvel at this well-preserved, 19th-century house with creaking wooden floors and a large collection of firearms, as well as historical photos.
Cape Town
This old burial ground on Signal Hill is where some of the earliest Muslim settlers to the area are buried, including three prominent holy men.
Zimbabwe
This historic church featuring lovely stained-glass windows, and believed to be several centuries old, was shipped here from London in 1960.
KwaZulu-Natal
Opposite Settlers Dr is a wall with loopholes from the original fort, built as a refuge from Zulu attack and now part of the police station.
Northern Cape
An elaborately decorated Victorian mansion, built in 1897. It forms a part of the McGregor Museum.
Northern Mozambique
Mozambique Island is 90% Muslim, a fact enshrined in this impressive green mosque that stands beside the busy fish market in Makuti Town.
Swakopmund
The imposing, fort-like Alte Kaserne was built in 1906 by the railway company, and now houses the Hostelling International Youth Hostel.
Sunshine Coast
Covers a mishmash of subjects, from early human history to astronomy. The collection includes some impressive taxidermy and skeletons.
Western Cape
There's an impressive private collection of vintage cars here, including two Daimlers from King George V's 1947 visit to South Africa.
Botswana
There is a small, dusty museum at Main (Rhino) Camp with a handful of ethnographic exhibits and wall-sized quotes about the rock art.
Swakopmund
The 1912 baroque-style Old German School was the result of a 1912 competition, which was won by budding German architect Emil Krause.
Sunshine Coast
Grocott’s Mail is one of Grahamstown's best examples of a preserved historic shopfront. It still houses a working newspaper office.
Port Elizabeth
This museum-house, occupying a picturesque cottage dating from 1827, evokes a settler family's life during the mid-Victorian period.
Cape Town
The main entrance to the Castle of Good Hope, crowned by a bell tower, replaced the original sea-facing entrance to the fortress.
Zimbabwe
One of the national park's more well-known caves, a 40-minute walk from the mountain hut.
Cape Town
This art deco building facing Greenmarket Sq is constructed from sandstone and decorated with an attractive diamond-theme design.
Northern Cape
Cecil John Rhodes is immortalised sitting atop his horse, map in hand, gazing northwards to the continent he wanted to colonise.
Cape Town
This granite memorial commemorates seven young black activists from the townships who were murdered by the police here in 1986.
Sunshine Coast
This small nature reserve, set up to preserve the area's coastal fynbos (fine bush), has several footpaths.
Pemba
When you get to the end of Avenida Eduardo Mondlane, stop and take in the view of the world's third-largest natural harbour.
Durban
The windy location makes surfing less popular here than at other beaches on the Golden Mile. It has a very hairy shorebreak.
Blyde River Canyon
Crashing down the cliffs, this waterfall is at its most impressive in summer (October to March), when there is most water.
Pretoria
The old Parliament Building of the Transvaal Republic Government, dating from 1890, sits on the south side of the square.
Cape Town
This memorial marks the spot where the young American anti-apartheid activist died, under tragic circumstances, in 1993.
KwaZulu-Natal
The words of the Vow that the Voortrekkers made with God at the Battle of Blood River are in the Modern Memorial Church.
Eastern Cape
A 400m path winds past the garden's ponds, cascading water and over 80 fairy sculptures. It's a great place to relax.
War Memorial & Long Tom Monument
Limpopo
The last Long Tom gun was destroyed here during the second Anglo-Boer War, which became symbolic of the Boer defeat.
Cape Town
In this square a school of steel sharks by sculptor Ralph Borland respond to passersby by swivelling on their poles.
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