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Newlands Water Spring
On the corner of Letterstedt Rd, Newlands Brewery have installed a public spring, where locals come to get free, fresh spring water piped from Table Mountain.
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Musina Nature Reserve
With South Africa’s highest concentration of baobabs, the reserve is 5km south of the town off the N1, and has animals such as impalas and blue wildebeests.
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St Lucia Crocodile Centre
About 1km north of St Lucia, on the road to Cape Vidal, is St Lucia Crocodile Centre, where a fine array of crocs can be seen in their not-so-natural habitat.
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Arend Dieperink Museum
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.
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Victoria Reservoir
One of a series of five reservoirs built on the top of Table Mountain towards the end of the 19th and the early 20th centuries. This one was completed in 1896.
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Nduli Nature Reserve
Nduli Nature Reserve is in a valley about 3km south of Mthatha. The reserve has zebras, wildebeests and antelope species, as well as many species of wetland birds.
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Mullers Opticians
One of the the most beautifully preserved art deco shopfronts in the City Bowl, a landmark since 1920, this is South Africas oldest optician, founded in the 1890s.
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Market House
The most elaborate example of art deco architecture on Greenmarket Sq, this building has majestic stone-carved eagles and flowers on its facade as well as balconies.
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Jan Hendrik Statue
In Church Sq stands a statue of Jan Hendrik, one-time editor of the Zuid Afrikaan newspaper and a key figure behind the drafting of the 1909 South African constitution.
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Central Library
The Drill Hall, dating from 1889 and where Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 21st birthday, has been sensitively restored and turned into the city’s Central Library.
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Freedom Charter Monument
This brick tower right on Walter Sisulu Sq symbolises freedom and democracy. Its built where the Freedom Charter was adopted by the Congress of the People in 1955.
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National Museum
A great recreation of a 19th-century street, complete with sound effects, is the most interesting display at this museum. It also has a shop and a cafe.
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Baileys Cottage
Between the sea and the railway line, this beach cottage dates from 1909 and was built for mining magnate and legislator Abe Bailey, whose grave is on the hillside nearby.
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Statue of Gandhi
A statue of Gandhi, who was famously ejected from a 1st-class carriage at Pietermaritzburg station, stands defiant opposite some old colonial buildings on Church St.
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Springfield
Some of the wines here are unfiltered – try the uncrushed Whole Berry for something different. Bring your own picnic to enjoy in the peaceful grounds, overlooking a lake.
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South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
The second coelacanth (a marine fish with limblike pectoral fins) ever caught is exhibited here; until 1938 this primitive fish was thought to have been extinct.
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Slavery Memorial
On Church Sq, this public art project comprises 11 low, black granite blocks engraved with the names of slaves or words relating to slavery, resistance and rebellion.
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Nelson Mandela Bridge
Built two days after Mandela’s 85th birthday in 2003, this cable-stayed bridge is the longest of its kind in Southern Africa and an icon of the rejuvenated city centre.
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Ulundi Battlefield Memorial
En route to Ondini from Ulundi, you will pass the Ulundi Battlefield Memorial a stone structure commemorating the Battle of Ulundi and the final defeat of the Zulus.
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Modern Memorial Church
The Church of the Vow was built in 1841 to fulfil the Voortrekkers’ promise to God at the Battle of Blood River. The words of the Vow are in the Modern Memorial Church.
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