🇿🇦South Africa

Soweto

Soweto is a township southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, established as a segregated residential area during apartheid. It became central to the anti-apartheid struggle, notably the 1976 Soweto Uprising.

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• Johannesburg

Maboneng Precinct

Maboneng

Maboneng Precinct is a regenerated inner-city district in eastern Johannesburg, South Africa. The name means place of light in Sesotho.

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• Johannesburg

Chapman's Peak Drive

Chapman's Peak Drive is a spectacular coastal road that winds along the Atlantic-facing cliffs between Hout Bay and Noordhoek on the Cape Peninsula. The route is carved into the steep mountainside, offering dramatic ocean views from elevated vantage points.

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• Cape Town

Camps Bay

Camps Bay is an Atlantic seaboard suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, distinguished by its wide crescent beach and dramatic mountain scenery.

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• Cape Town

Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre is a museum and educational facility located in the Rosebank area of Johannesburg. It examines the Holocaust alongside other genocides globally, with particular attention to South African human-rights history.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

Nelson Mandela Foundation

The Nelson Mandela Foundation is an archive, exhibition, and research centre in Houghton, Johannesburg. It preserves and interprets Nelson Mandela’s papers, photographs, personal effects, and public legacy.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

Hout Bay Harbour

Hout Bay Harbour is a working fishing harbour situated in the coastal suburb of Hout Bay, approximately 20 kilometres south of Cape Town's city centre.

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• Cape Town

Ponte City Apartments

Ponte City

Ponte City Apartments is a cylindrical residential skyscraper in the Hillbrow neighbourhood of Johannesburg, South Africa. Completed in 1975, the 54-storey building was designed by architects Manfred Hermer and Rodney Grosskopff.

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• Johannesburg

Kalk Bay

Kalk Bay is a historic fishing village on the False Bay coastline of Cape Town. It retains a working harbour where small-scale fishers still operate, alongside a main road lined with independent businesses.

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• Cape Town

Main Street Mining District

Main Street

Main Street Mining District is a historic corridor in central Johannesburg where the city’s gold-rush origins remain visible in streets, buildings, monuments, and public art.

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• Johannesburg

Chancellor House

Chancellor House is a modest three-storey building in Johannesburg that served as the law offices of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo from 1952 to 1960.

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• Johannesburg

Simon's Town Historic Mile

Simon's Town Historic Mile is a heritage walking route through the central area of Simon's Town, a naval town on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula.

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• Cape Town

Groot Constantia

Groot Constantia Manor House

Groot Constantia is a historic wine estate in Cape Town’s Constantia Valley. With origins in the seventeenth century, it combines a working vineyard with Cape Dutch heritage, wine experiences, and grounds suited to a slower half-day visit.

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• Museum
• Cape Town

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA)

Zeitz MOCAA is a museum of contemporary African art housed in a converted historic grain silo at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

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• Cape Town

Iziko South African Museum

Iziko South African Museum is South Africa's national natural-history museum, situated in Cape Town's historic Company's Garden. Established in the nineteenth century, it holds the status of a flagship heritage institution under the Iziko Museums of South Africa network.

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• Cape Town

Satyagraha House

Satyagraha House is a historic residence in Johannesburg where Mohandas Gandhi lived during his early political activism in South Africa. The house is associated with the development of Satyagraha, his philosophy of nonviolent resistance.

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• Johannesburg

Slave Lodge

Iziko Slave Lodge

Iziko Slave Lodge is a heritage museum in central Cape Town, housed in one of South Africa’s oldest surviving buildings.

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• Museum
• Cape Town

Apartheid Museum

The Apartheid Museum is a Johannesburg museum dedicated to South Africa’s apartheid era and the country’s transition to democracy.

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• Johannesburg

Koopmans-de Wet House

Koopmans-de Wet House is a historic house museum on Strand Street in central Cape Town. It preserves the domestic world associated with Marie Koopmans-de Wet and her sister, prominent figures in nineteenth-century Cape society.

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• Cape Town

Johannesburg Art Gallery

Johannesburg Art Gallery is a public art museum in Joubert Park, in Johannesburg’s inner city.

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• Johannesburg

Mandela House

Mandela House is Nelson Mandela’s former home on Vilakazi Street in Orlando West, Soweto. Mandela lived in the house before his imprisonment and returned there briefly after his release in 1990.

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• Johannesburg

District Six Museum

The District Six Museum is a community museum in Cape Town that preserves the memory of District Six, a vibrant multiracial neighbourhood demolished under apartheid-era forced removals.

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• Cape Town

Liliesleaf Farm

Liliesleaf Farm is a liberation-history museum in Rivonia, northern Johannesburg. The property served as an underground headquarters for the African National Congress during the early 1960s.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

Hector Pieterson Museum

The Hector Pieterson Museum is a memorial museum in Soweto dedicated to the 1976 Soweto uprising.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

MuseuMAfricA

Museum Africa

Museum Africa is a museum in Newtown devoted to the social, cultural, and urban history of Johannesburg and Africa. It places the city within wider African stories of movement, work, community, political change, and cultural expression.

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• Johannesburg

Chavonnes Battery

Chavonnes Battery Museum

The Chavonnes Battery Museum preserves exposed eighteenth-century fortifications of the Dutch East India Company at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront. The site reveals original defensive walls and archaeological remains of a coastal battery built to protect Table Bay.

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• Museum
• Cape Town

Johannesburg Zoo

Johannesburg Zoo is a long-established urban zoo located in Johannesburg, South Africa. It stands as one of the city's foremost family attractions, drawing visitors across generations.

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• Johannesburg

Wits Art Museum

Wits Art Museum is the public art museum of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The museum collects, preserves, and exhibits African and South African art within a university setting.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

James Hall Transport Museum

James Hall Museum of Transport

The James Hall Museum of Transport is a Johannesburg museum devoted to the history of transport in South Africa.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

Simon's Town Museum

Simonstown Museum

Simon's Town Museum is a local heritage museum in Simon's Town on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula, about forty kilometres south of Cape Town's central business district.

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• Cape Town

South African Jewish Museum

The South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town presents the history and influence of Jewish communities in South Africa. Beside the historic Gardens Synagogue, it connects community memory, migration and religious life with the wider story of the country.

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• Cape Town

Two Oceans Aquarium

Two Oceans Aquarium is a public aquarium situated at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront. The facility takes its name from the unique marine environment at the southern tip of Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans converge.

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• Cape Town

South African Naval Museum

The South African Naval Museum is a military heritage institution located in Simon's Town, the historic home of South Africa's naval base. It occupies buildings within the naval dockyard complex, reflecting the area's longstanding maritime military significance.

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• Cape Town

Bo-Kaap museum

Bo-Kaap Museum

The Bo-Kaap Museum is a historic house museum located in the Bo-Kaap neighbourhood of Cape Town. It occupies one of the area's characteristic nineteenth-century houses, preserving the domestic heritage of a community historically associated with the Cape Malay culture.

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• Cape Town

Origins Centre

Origins Centre Museum is a museum at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The museum explores human origins, archaeology, rock art, indigenous knowledge, and southern African heritage.

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• Johannesburg

Cape Town Diamond Museum

The Cape Town Diamond Museum is a specialist museum located at the V&A Waterfront. It presents South Africa's diamond heritage through exhibits on historical mining operations and the development of diamond cutting craftsmanship.

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• Cape Town

Credo Mutwa Cultural Village

Credo Mutwa Cultural Village is an outdoor sculpture garden and cultural site in Soweto, Johannesburg.

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• Johannesburg

Lindfield Victorian House Museum

Lindfield Victorian House Museum is a preserved Victorian-era residence in Johannesburg, locally known as Lindfield House.

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• Museum
• Johannesburg

Sci-Bono Centre

Sci-Bono Discovery Centre is an independently entered science museum located in Newtown, Johannesburg. It operates with its own exhibitions and visitor programme, distinguishing it from other institutions in the precinct.

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• Johannesburg

Sterkfontein Caves

Sterkfontein Caves forms the principal fossil cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located northwest of Johannesburg.

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• Johannesburg

Workers Museum

The Workers' Museum occupies a former municipal compound in Newtown, Johannesburg. It preserves the history of migrant labourers who constructed and sustained the mining city from the late 19th century onward.

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• Johannesburg