"The town of Beaufort West was founded in 1818 on the farm of Hooivlakte at the foot of the Nuweveld Mountain Range."
"Legend has it that the extraordinary mountain peaks to the west of Ladismith were cleft in two by an angry old witch who could not find a way through the mountains."
"Laingsburg was established in 1881 when land on the episodic Buffels River was bundled into plots and sold."
"Oudtshoorn is the tourist capital of the Little Karoo and the ostrich capital of South Africa, with thousands of the beady-eyed birds all over the place."
"In 1890 alluvial nuggets of gold were discovered and a frantic gold rush started at Prince Albert."
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