Established in 2013, Rockwood represents a new breed of rhino reserve. Facing the biggest threats to rhinos and other species, the ‘agriculture’, unchecked illegal…
All Attractions in Kimberley & The Northern Cape
What to do in Kimberley and the Northern Cape.
Attractions – Eco Tourism – Historical – Heritage – Cultural – Monuments – Museums – Statues – Memorials
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Northern Cape Provincial Legislature
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Northern Cape Provincial Legislature is the law-making institution of the province and this African-inspired Provincial Legislature building is aptly…
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Malay Camp Memorial
100% Local: Yes/1Premium Company: -The Malay Camp Memorial is dedicated to the people of the Malay Camp who were forcibly removed removed from their site between 1939 and 1959. ACCESS DE…
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Sol Plaatje Tourist Information Centre
100% Local: Yes/1Premium Company: Yes/1Visit the Kimberley Tourism Information Centre situated next to Civic Centre in the Sol Plaatje Municipality area. You will get a warm welcome from our friendly Touri…
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Star of the West Pub & Grill
Cuisine: Pub FareStyle: HistoricalSmoking: -100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Star of the West, Kimberley’s oldest pub, lies within sight of the city’s famous Big Hole, a perfect location for a tavern that grew out of the same diamond rush that p…
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The Honoured Dead Memorial
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Honoured Dead Memorial The Honoured Dead Memorial is a provincial heritage site in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated a…
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William Humphreys Art Gallery
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The William Humphreys Art Gallery, situated in Kimberley's Civic Centre, is considered one of the finest art museums in South Africa. The art collection at William Hu…
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Duggan-Cronin Gallery
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Duggan-Cronin Gallery is a photographic museum displaying the photographs of Alfred Duggan-Cronin, Aubrey Elliot, Jean Morris and Alice Mertens. This collect…
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Magersfontein Battlefield
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Magersfontein Battlefield About 31.5 km on the Modderriver Road past the airport. The Magersfontein battlefield is a must for any visitor to Kimberley. It is situate…
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Africana Library
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Head for the Kimberley Africana Library in Kimberley for one of the finest collections of Africana in the world. The library houses about 14000 books, 640 manuscripts…
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McGregor Museum
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The McGregor Museum was originally located in Chapel Street, but was moved in the early 1970s to a larger building, the old Kimberley Sanatorium – the same build…
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The Big Hole Centre
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Big Hole Visitors Center. A ‘hole’ new experience ….. You’ll dig it! A visit to the Big Hole will transport you back in time to the v…
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WILDEBEEST KUIL ROCK ART CENTRE
100% Local: Yes/1Background South Africa’s rich heritage of rock art occurs in the form of engravings on the interior plains, and paintings in the more mountainous areas, their…
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Dunluce
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Dunluce, or Lillianville as it was first known, is a typical late Victorian house with wooden facade and much of the original furnishings. It is one of Kimberley…
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Memorial to Sister Henrietta Stockdale
100% Local: -Henrietta Stockdale, an Anglican nun of the Order of Saint Michael and All Angels, became the first matron of the new Kimberley hospital. The nurses she trained were mu…
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Pioneers of Aviation
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Kimberley is regarded as the cradle of aviation in South Africa and in 1913, South Africa’s first fling school opened here. Pilots of the South Afr…
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Rudd House
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Rudd House is a typical example of a residence built for the wealthy during the 19th century. The building is surrounded by verandahs and is lavishly furnished.…
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Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Gardens and Diggers Fountain
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Gardens are a memorial to the late Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond magnate and the first elected mayor of the municipality of the city of Kimberley when Beac…
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Kimberley’s Bronze Monument of Queen Victoria
100% Local: -Kimberley’s bronze monument of Queen Victoria has pride of place outside the William Humphreys Art Gallery on Jan Smuts Boulevard opposite the Oppenheimer Ga…
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Mokala National Park
100% Local: -Premium Company: -This is South Africa’s newest Park, proclaimed as recently as June 2007, and is conveniently situated only 80km south west of Kimberley. Mokala is a Setswana na…
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Rooipoort Nature Reserve
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Rooipoort is a private game reserve, of over 40,000 hectares with 12.5kms of unspoilt Vaal River frontage, situated ± 65km west of Kimberley.…
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Masonic Temple
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Masonic Temple is a single-storey corrugated iron structure with a saddle roof and centrally placed air vent. A verandah is found to the rear of the building…
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The Synagogue
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Synagogue – Kimberley, Northern Cape. Synagogue in the Byzantine style designed by D.W. Greatbatch built in 1902, and based on the synagogue…
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Kimberley Transport Museum
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Transport Museum is located at the Kimberley Railway Station. The Transport Museum showcases the development of the railways and transport system…
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Sol Plaatje House Museum
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Sol Plaatje House Museum hosts a library for African literature, with interesting displays on Sol Plaatje’s life. A founder member of the ANC, Plaat…
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The Vintage Tram
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The tram system, set up by the Victoria Tramways Company, first started transporting people to the ever-expanding Big Hole in 1887 and today you can take a 20-mi…
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The Big Hole & Kimberley Mine Museum
100% Local: -Premium Company: -A trip to Kimberley would be incomplete without visiting the city’s main attraction, the Big Hole. Right in the middle of the city, this giant 215-metre d…
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The Harry Oppenheimer House
100% Local: -Premium Company: -The Harry Oppenheimer house was constructed for the sorting of all diamonds mined by De Beers in Southern Africa. Since diamonds are best sorted by gentle natural ligh…
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Dronfield Nature Reserve
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The Cenotaph – World War Memorial
100% Local: -The Cenotaph – World War Memorial Monument Kimberley’s Cenotaph unveiled in Du Toitspan Road on 15 July 1928 The Cenotaph erected orig…
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Alexander Mcgregor Memorial Museum
100% Local: -Premium Company: -Alexander Mcgregor Memorial Museum – Kimberley. Changes are underway at this museum and it will soon be a Kimberley History Museum, with a Kimber…
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St Cyprian’s Anglican Cathedral
100% Local: Yes/1St Cyprian’s Cathedral is one of several Anglican parishes in the City of Kimberley and, as the seat of the Bishop, is the mother church to the Diocese of Kimberle…
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The Galeshewe Theatre Organisation
Mission Continue a historic journey that expresses a mirror image of society through irreplaceable productions. Company Overview GATO was established on 31 Januar…