A small ghost town, Eureka City was established in 1885, when gold was discovered on the Sheba Reef. It is located 20kms from Barberton. In 1886 the town had three shops, three hotels, a bakery, chemist, racecourse, music hall and bars to cater for the diggers in the area. All that remains now are the […]

The first decent road through Schoemanskloof was built in the 1920s under the supervision of a Hollander, Joe Barbas whose ‘likeness’, can still be seen on the side of this road. In 1927, the men working for him discovered a rock near Patatasnek that they reckoned looked like him. They hauled it up to the […]

This replica of a Creusot siege cannon stands 21 km from Sabie on the breathtaking Long Tom Pass (R37) and is a stoic reminder of the areas war history. The monument marks the spot where in September 1900,  two of these cannons were use for the last time by the Boer commandos against the British […]

Nukain Mabuza worked as a farm labourer on the Esperado farm at Revolver Creek (close to the eSwatini border) in the 1960s and 1970s. However, he was also an artist, and he dedicated all of his leisure time to constructing an amazing garden of painted rocks at the foot of a small hill, or granite […]