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At the Dias Cross Memorial on the coast of South Africa's Eastern Cape province, there is a padrão replica on a promontory at what is now known as Kwaaihoek; it was placed by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 to mark the site of his most easterly landfall after becoming the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope. The original padrão ...
The corner stone of this stone building was laid on 14 June 1890. In 1928, under the direction of Gerhard Moerdyk, the building was substantially enlarged and the striking portico and spire were added. During the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) the building w Type of site: Church. The corner stone of this stone building was laid on 14 June 1890.
This is a list of national and provincial heritage sites in South Africa, as declared by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and the nine provincial heritage resources authorities. The list is maintained by SAHRA by means of an online, publicly accessible database, the South African Heritage Resources Information System (SAHRIS ...
Nine countries have only a single site each. Four sites are shared between two countries: Maloti-Drakensberg Park (Lesotho and South Africa), the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea), the Stone Circles of Senegambia (the Gambia and Senegal), and Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe).
South Africa accepted the convention on 10 July 1997. [3] There are twelve World Heritage Sites in South Africa. [3] The first three sites in South Africa were added to the list in 1999 while the most recent ones, the Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites and the Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa, were added in 2024.
The cross is now held in the Deutsches Historisches Museum. A simple wooden cross was put in its place. The wooden cross was replaced two years later by a stone replica. At the end of the 20th century, thanks to private donations, another cross, more similar to the original one, was erected at the cape along with the first replica.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – South Africa's third-largest protected area, spanning 280 km of coastline previously known as Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, including Cape Vidal Game Reserve, False Bay Park – Nature reserve in South Africa, Kosi Bay Nature Reserve,
Sibudu Cave is a rock shelter in a sandstone cliff in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [1] It is an important Middle Stone Age site occupied, with some gaps, from 77 000 years ago to 38 000 years ago.