First published in 2010 by Struik Travel & Heritage
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This ebook edition published in 2012
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Copyright © in text: Pat Hopkins, Willie Olivier and Denise Slabbert 2010
Copyright © in maps: Random House Struik, MapStudio 2010
Copyright © in road guide and street plans: MapStudio 2010
Copyright © in photographs: Jéan Du Plessis 2010, with the exception of:
Front cover Hein von Hörsten/Images of Africa; p. 16 (bottom) Erhardt Thiel/Images of Africa; pp. 15 (bottom), 37, 147 (right), 194 (left) Lanz von Hörsten/Images of Africa; pp. 17, 18, 118, 137, 151, 161 (left) Walter Knirr/Images of Africa; pp. 26, 45 (left), 127 (bottom right), 150, 154, 171, 191 (bottom) Hein von Hörsten/Images of Africa; pp. 27 (top & bottom), 35 (top), 41 (bottom right), 99 (bottom right) Shaen Adey/Images of Africa; pp. 29, 44 (bottom right), 103 (left) Keith Young/Images of Africa; pp. 34, 56 (top), 139, 142, 143 (left), 147 (left), 165 (left), 169, 179 (right), 199 Nigel Dennis/Images of Africa; pp. 49 (bottom left), 163 (left) Jéan du Plessis/Images of Africa; p. 65 (right) Gerhard Dreyer/Images of Africa; p. 107 (right) Roger de la Harpe/Images of Africa; p. 143 (right) Albert Froneman/Images of Africa; and p. 162 Wendy Dennis/Images of Africa.
Extracts from The South African Fact Book (2009) by Pat Hopkins, Denise Slabbert and Bongiwe Ngwenya in chapters 1, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 23 used with kind permission from Penguin Books.
Extracts from Ghosts of South Africa (2006) by Pat Hopkins in chapter 12 used with kind permission from Zebra Press.
South African Tourism (www.southafrica.net) is gratefully acknowledged as an information source.
Also available in Afrikaans as Padlangs deur Suid-Afrika (ISBN 9781770077515 (Print) 9781920545642 (ePub) 9781920545659 (PDF))
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Front cover: N2 highway between Swellendam and Cape Town.
Half-title page: En route to the Cango Caves from Calitzdorp.
Title Page: Meiringspoort.
Contents Page (Left to right): Groot Constantia, Matjiesfontein, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and Cullinan.