FAQ Category: Mile markers: Joburg 2 Blouberg Route

1000 miler Joburg 2 Blouberg

0693 mi – Fraserburg

Fraserburg is a town in the Karoo region of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. It is in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality. The town has some of the…

0633 mi – Loxton

Loxton was originally a farm called Phizantefontein, which was owned by A.E. Loxton, whom the town is named after. The farm was bought from him in 1899 by…

0577 mi – Victoria West

The town was laid out on the bank of the Brakrivier watercourse in 1843, when the Dutch Reformed Church bought the farm Zeekoegat from the estate of J.H.…

0524 mi – Richmond

The town was established in 1843 in South Africa’s inland plateau. It was founded to meet the religious needs of a growing farming community, but unlike most Karoo towns…

0501 mi – Wortelfontein

This little gem marks the official half-way mark. Wortelfontein Guest Farm is nestled in the bend and foothills of a horseshoe mountain range on a 4890-hectare Karoo farm…

0477 mi – Hanover

Hanover is a small town in the Northern Cape Province. Named after Hanover in Germany, this town was established in 1854. Much of the farming in the area…

0425 mi – Colesberg

Colesberg was founded in 1830 on an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and initially named Toverberg after a nearby hill, it was renamed Colesburg after Sir…

0382 mi – Gariep

Bordering the Free State and Eastern Cape, the town next to the wall of South Africa’s biggest dam, the Gariep Dam (Commissioned in 1971). Its primary purpose is…

0331 mi – Trompsburg

Another former N1 town until the bypass was built.  Trompsburg was laid out in 1891 on the farm Middelwater and attained municipal status in 1902. Named after the…

0308 mi – Edenburg

Edenburg is another one of those small towns. Proclaimed a town in 1863 and received municipal government in 1891. Laid out on the Farm Rietfontein in 1862 with…