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Discover Mzanzi<br />
journalist, campaigner for human rights, novelist and translator, to<br />
Mahikeng at the time of the siege. These sites include his residence, his<br />
newspaper office and printing works.<br />
Also located in Mahikeng is the provincial parliament with its impressive<br />
government offices known as the Garona. The Mmabana Cultural Centre<br />
nearby promotes music and many artistic disciplines through numerous<br />
practical workshops and exhibitions. The Mmabatho Conference Centre<br />
has facilities to host up to 6,000 delegates and is centrally located for<br />
transport and hotels.<br />
Other major towns in North West include the commercial centre of<br />
Klerksdorp, the historic university town of Potchefstroom, Rustenburg<br />
and Brits on the Platinum Belt, the gold mining town of Orkney, and<br />
Vryburg in the west. Zeerust is the large major town before crossing into<br />
Botswana and lies within the Groot Marico region made famous in his<br />
humorous books, featuring the famous character Oom Scalk Lourens, by<br />
the acclaimed author Herman Charles Bosman.<br />
Far removed from the hustle and bustle of city life, in spirit though not in<br />
distance, the province offers an escape route to a slice of the real Africa. It<br />
is home to breath-taking scenic beauty, rolling fields of maize and golden<br />
sunflowers, vast plains of African bushveld, superb game parks boasting<br />
the Big Five, magnificent golf courses, water-based leisure activities,<br />
sporting facilities, heritage and cultural sites and attractions, world class<br />
entertainment at Sun City, hiking, hot-air ballooning, mountain climbing,<br />
and more….truly a spectacular blend a of 21st century living and the<br />
mystique and traditions of ancient Africa.<br />
On the way to Sun City and its magnificent modern Palace of the Lost City<br />
hotel and resort, is the real Lost City of Mogale, the ancestral home of Chief<br />
Culture & Heritage<br />
The province has many historical and cultural sites, including several<br />
cultural villages that both entertain and enrich as they interpret the<br />
indigenous people of South Africa in their own unique manner. So<br />
important is cultural heritage to this province that it even has its own<br />
Heritage Song.<br />
Just a 20-minute drive from Sun City is the Mphebatho Cultural<br />
Museumsituated in Moruleng Village. This vibrant community centre<br />
provides an alternative experience of the heritage, culture and<br />
tradition of the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela people living in the vicinity of the<br />
Pilanesberg mountains and Pilanesberg National Park. Mahikeng is<br />
also the traditional capital of the Barolong people where many cultural<br />
and historic offerings are to be found, including the Lotlamoreng<br />
Cultural Reserve and Montshiwua Dam where there is a cultural<br />
village, recreational area and a demarcated waterfowl sanctuary.<br />
North West Heritage Song<br />
The Platinum Province,<br />
Our pride is our heritage<br />
Ahe – Ahe, Tlang lotlhe, bonang gotlhe<br />
Ahe – Ahe, A re tseeng karolo rotlhe<br />
A re goleng mmogo – Let’s grow together<br />
The Platinum Province is for you and for me<br />
A re tseeng karolo rotlhe, Go Bojanala<br />
Province ya bokone-Bophirima<br />
Ke ya me le wena<br />
iStock-Ina Felker
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