The Cultural Village takes you for a walk down the pathway of time. It is here where the lifestyle and architecture of the South Sotho is accurately depicted from the sixteenth century to the dramatically colorful present.
On July 30, 1900, 5,000 Boer men, women and children under the leadership of General Marthinus Prinsloo were trapped and forced to surrender to a huge encircling British army on top of Surrender Hill (top left), near Fouriesburg, in the mountains of the eastern Orange Free State.
The Ficksburg Town Hall, old Court House and Methodist Church, which were built before the Anglo Boer War, were all built of local sandstone. In 1907 the Dutch Reformed Church, the Railway Station, the old Post Office and the bridge across the Caledon, all built of Ficksburg sandstone, were formally opened. Many public buildings including the Union Buildings in Pretoria were built of Ficksburg sandstone.
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Bushmans Cave Hiking Trail
CATEGORY:
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE, ARTS & CRAFTS, HISTORY & CULTURE
LOCATION: FOURIESBURG
DESCRIPTION:
This experience includes Bushman rock art, splendid views over Lesotho, an unfinished castle atop a sheer cliff, an old fort, and prolific birdlife.
