The Port Elizabeth Campanile memorial tower has 204 steps leading up to the observation room, and it was made more accessible during refurbishment in 2017 with the addition of a lift. The 53-metre-high, nine-floor tower, located between the railway station and the port, was opened in 1923 to commemorate the landing of British settlers in South Africa in 1820. Long Read more...
In the early hours of 14th February 2013, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home on Bushwillow Crescent in the Silver Woods Country Estate gated community, east of Pretoria. Pistorius admitted that he fired shots through a closed door in a bathroom at his home, three of which struck Steenkamp, causing her death, Read more...