How many South African provinces have you been to?

How many South African provinces have you been to?

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BCoetzer said:
How many South African provinces have you been to?

Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
Northern Cape
North West
Western Cape
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All 9, the question should be how many towns have you visited in each Province.
 
Western Cape - Born and bred here and have lived in the WC for all my 50 years on this planet. I have called both the Southern Cape and Cape Town home and know the province like the back of my hand. Best place on earth if you ask me. SA don't need the other provinces - If they make me president, I would give them all to Zimbabwe.

Eastern Cape - Spent many holidays in PE, travelled for work to East London, Grahamstown, King Williams Town etc. My honeymoon was in the Tsitsikamma forest. I'll add the area from Stormsrivier to East London into the Western Cape before handing over to Zim.

Free State - In laws lived in Bloemfontein for a while and visited them often. Had friends and family in Aliwal Noord. Did the 3 hour trip between Bloem and Aliwal on many occasions.

Gauteng - Small province. I travel to Jhb/Pta/Midrand area for work.

KwaZulu-Natal - Only been to Durban and the North and South coast. I would love to see the midlands and Drakensberge.

North West - Been to Potch and Klerksdorp

Northern Cape - Only travelled through Colesberg on the N1 but other than that have never visited the province (my wife is from there but have no family/friends left to visit)

Limpopo - Went to a game farm once on the other side of Warmbad but that was it.

Mpumalanga - Never been. Sadly I have also been to the Kruger National Park.
 
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Brian_G said:
Lol, I haven't been to some of these provinces since the early 90's though, so maybe in-the-newer-provinces doesn't count for some of us older folk.
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If you been to a town/city/province before ANC name change, it does not count, because you could argue that after the ANC tranformation, they no longer the same place.
 
rh1 said:
If you been to a town/city/province before ANC name change, it does not count, because you could argue that after the ANC tranformation, they no longer the same place.
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We could also argue that you're not the same rh1 as you were 4 minutes ago.... but yeah, argument could swing either way.
 
Gauteng- live in Pretoria and the odd Joburg trip.
Western Cape - a few holiday trips
KZN - Holidays to balito and Margate.
Freestate - stopped for breakfast/lunch on the way to KZN.
Mpumalanga - love my southern Kruger trips.
Northwest- visited Pilanesberg and Madikwe reserves.
Limpopo - some of the central/ northern Kruger camps fall in Limpopo.

Plan to do Addo park at some point so will then knock off EC.
 
All of them, but I do need to go further into Northern Cape past Kimberley and further in Limpopo past Modimolle.
 
BrotherTheresa said:
What about those little, one-horse towns nobody has ever heard of, bonus points if you have stayed over. Hers a few I have been to:

Dirkiesdorp
Mooketsi
Louwsburg
Bulletrap
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Haven't even heard of them. :cool: What do you do there ? Apart from riding that one horse I mean?
 
probably all of them, but they didn't necessarily exist at the time e.g. I suspect our last family trip to Kruger was pre-1994

post-1994 I may never have been to what then became known as Mpumalanga
 
Years ago, when I could still claim to be a young man, I drove through most of the small towns in the country. This was for work. Cant recall most of them, but I was there.
 
BCoetzer said:
How many South African provinces have you been to?

Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
Northern Cape
North West
Western Cape
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I have lived in 3 of the provinces, worked for extended periods in all of them and have travelled along every major road and highway at some time or another. I have also travelled many of the minor roads and have even travelled along roads that you wont find on any map. I have stayed for short periods in more places than I can possibly remember. I know our country pretty well, including South West Africa. What I don't know is all the new names and will probably never get them located in the map I carry around in my head.
 
Sideshow Bob said:
Haven't even heard of them. :cool: What do you do there ? Apart from riding that one horse I mean?
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Mooketsi is one of the most fertile lands in South Africa you can grow anything there.... There is a lot of intensive farming, it's a very busy and active area every sqm is under production, ZZ2 is based there, which is the largest vegetable producer in the country.

And unfortunately there is no horses there, nevermind one
 
haven't been to all of them, but to the major ones, definitely.

so GP, NW, KZN,MP and WC and drove through the FS,
never done eastern cape, northern cape,
 
Here’s my favourite things in each province:

Northern Cape: Kgalagadi will give you some of the best big cat sightings you can get anywhere on the planet. Just chill at your camp looking at the waterhole and everything comes to drink (you should also drink). No bushes in the way, clear line of sight. Camping in the coastal part of Namaqua National Park. Rafting the Orange River.

Mpumalanga: southern Kruger. Barberton, which has great natural history tourism

Limpopo: northern Kruger. Hitting up Venda guys for mangoes. All those game farms in the Bushveld, some great campsites that feel very remote.

KZN: battleground tourism between Volkrust and Vryheid. Sodwana Bay is the only decent place to look at corals in South Africa. St Lucia has great beaches, but not the best. The drive from the Midlands to Sani Pass is plain awesome.

Gauteng: cultural leader of South Africa. Only province where people don't routinely fsck livestock.

Eastern Cape: best beaches, hands down. If you know a little history and geography, then tourism along the old frontier is really cool.

Northwest: spelunking. Not an easy or quick thing to get into, but it opens up a pretty cool new world.

Western Cape: rock-climbing and hiking Cederberg. Driving Seweweekspoort - it's the best drive in South Africa for scenery.
 
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