Category: South Africa

Colonisation of Africa

The Partition of Africa The Scramble for Africa, occurring in the late nineteenth century, saw European powers divide and claim nearly the entire continent. Formalized during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, European nations established rules for colonization without African representation, leading to arbitrary borders that ignored indigenous cultures and political landscapes. This period transformed Africa, […]

Pinnacle Point & the History of Early Man

Pinnacle Point, a small promontory near Mossel Bay on the south coast of South Africa, appears to be the place where the very first human beings ever settled down by the sea. They arrived here some 164,000 years ago, during an extended ice age 195,000 to 123,000 years ago, which brought cold and dry climatic conditions and left much of the continent uninhabitable.

Johannesburg. Introduction for a South African tour.

Johannesburg is located in South Africa’s smallest and most densely-populated province, Gauteng, which owes much of its development to the discovery of gold in 1886.

Soweto for the senior traveler

Soweto, Gauteng Province, South Africa Soweto is an urban settlement or ‘township’ in South Africa, southwest of Johannesburg, with a population of approximately 1.3 million Soweto was created in the 1930s when the minority white government started moving black South Africans out of Johannesburgand separating them from the white citizens. They were moved to an […]

Small group tour of a game reserve.

A small group escorted tour of Southern Africa will send visitors away from a safari with wonderful photographs and amazing experiences of wildlife, birds and truly magnificent scenery as the backdrop for stories on any of the South Africa modern “5” to see on a small group journey into the wildlife reserve.

South Africa’s garden route.

The Garden Route leaves the rich farmland and passes through the Karoo National Park which is a wildlife reserve of semi-desert area covering 750 square kilometres. Bushbuck and Blue Duikers are common in the forested areas, and Common Eland can be seen on the slopes up from the road.

A history of South Africa for senior travellers

The scenery is spectacular and diverse, varying from mountains, rivers, grassy plains, lakes, lagoons and endless coastlines to sun-scorched semi-deserts. South Africa is divided into nine provinces

Glasgow; Nelson Mandela Place

Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow, G2 1QY Right in the heart of the city of Glasgow in Scotland is Nelson Mandela Place, a busy public square enclosing the shops on Buchanan Street, the 19th century St George’s Tron Church, and the former hub of the Glasgow Stock Exchange. It was also the former location of the […]

Exploring Southern Africa: The Definitive Guide for Travellers

Exploring Southern Africa Southern Africa, a subregion of the African continent, is composed of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. (The United Nations geographic region of Southern Africa, on the other hand, is under the Sub-Saharan African region, and includes only five countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, and South […]