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Gauteng
Gauteng, the economic heart of southern Africa, offers a vibrant business environment and many tourist attractions, including a rainbow of ecological and cultural diversity. Key attractions include:
- The Vaal Dam covers some 300 square km and is a popular venue for water sport. Numerous resorts line the shore. The Dam is popular with birders and anglers.
- The Sterkfontein Caves near Krugersdorp are the site of the discovery of the skull of the famous Mrs Ples (now believed to be Mr Ples), an estimated 2,5 million-year-old hominid fossil; and Little Foot, an almost complete hominid skeleton more than 3,3 million years old.
- The Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden boasts a 70-m high waterfall and stunning displays of indigenous plants.
- Forty kilometres north of Pretoria lies a ring of hills a kilometre in diameter and 100 m high. These hills are the walls of an impact crater, the Tswaing Meteorite Crater, left by an asteroid 200 000 years ago.
- The National Zoological Gardens in Pretoria, which is considered to be one of the 10 best in the world.
- The new Constitutional Hill Precinct which is set to become one of South Africa’s most popular land marks.
- The old mining town of Cullinan is the place where the world’s biggest diamond, the 3 106-carat Cullinan Diamond, was found.
- A guided tour of Soweto makes a lasting impression of this vast community’s life and struggle against Apartheid.
- The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg tells the story of the legacy of Apartheid through photographs, film and artefacts.
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