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Lady Grey Church, Eastern Cape. Lady Grey is a rural village in the North of the Eastern Cape in South Africa near the border with Lesotho.It is situated in the foothills of the Witteberg mountains, 54 km (34 mi) due east of Aliwal North on the R58 road and 260 km (160 mi) from the capital of the Free State Province, Bloemfontein.
Robben Island ( Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals ( robben ), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal (s) Island . Robben Island is roughly oval in shape ...
There is probably a higher percentage of voters opposed to racial discrimination than anywhere else in South Africa." Sea Point Days, a 2008 documentary film directed by François Verster; Notable people Saul Solomon, Cape Town politician who resided in Sea Point for most of his life during the late 1800s.
ANC election poster linking rival parties to the history of forced removals. District Six ( Afrikaans: Distrik Ses) is a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1966, the apartheid government (the National Party) announced that the area would be razed and rebuilt as a "whites only" neighbourhood under the Group Areas ...
Drakenstein Lion Park is a zoological park in Drakenstein, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1998 to keep lions which could not be rehabilitated into the wilderness, [1] and was meant to replace the now-defunct Tygerberg Zoo, [2] which housed possible descendants of the Cape lion, amongst other animals.
Right: Prince Albert Dutch Reformed Church. / 33.22528°S 22.03000°E / -33.22528; 22.03000. Prince Albert ( Afrikaans: Prins Albert) is a small town in the Western Cape in South Africa. It is located on the southern edge of the Great Karoo, at the foot of the Swartberg mountains. In recent years the moniker the " Franschhoek of the ...
Cecil Rhodes. An aerial video of the Rhodes Memorial in 2015. The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain. It is a memorial to the English -born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902), was designed by architect ...
Robert Gray was married on 6 September 1836 to Sophy Myddleton, the daughter of county squire Richard Wharton Myddleton of Durham and Yorkshire, and founded St George's Grammar School, in 1848 in the shadow of the St. George's Cathedral and Diocesan College, or Bishops as it is commonly known, in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in 1849. A notable part ...