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Accommodation, Camping, Guest Houses and Holiday Resorts for Fraserburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.


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Die Lapa.

Type: Self Catering
Contact: Dirk and Maia van Wyk
Postal address: PO Box 186, Fraserburg, 6960
Location: Saaifontein, Fraserburg
Cell: 083 377 0684
E-mail: karoo@draadlose.co.za

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Die Tuishuis Guest House, Fraserburg

Type: Bed and Breakfast, Self Catering.
Description: Die Tuishuis guest house offers comfortable accommodation in quiet surroundings. Enjoy our home-cooked meals and relaxed atmosphere.
Bed capacity: 7 en-suite bedrooms.
Room facilities: 3 Double Rooms, En-suite with DStv, 4 Twin Rooms, En-suite.
On-site facilities: Dinner & Sunday Lunch – Bookings only. Free WiFi. Braai Facilities. Safe Parking.
Physical address: 22 Meyburgh Street
Tel: 023 741 1379
Cell: 082 663 9985
E-mail: tuishuis@rante.co.za
Last edited: 2018/02/14

Driefontein Guest Farm B&B.

On request: Karoo lamb braai packs and braai wood
Contact: Carine and Johan Botes
Tel: 023 741 1050 after 12:00
Cell: 082 449 4368
E-mail: 3fontein@absamail.co.za

Kliphuis Restaurant and Country Inn, Fraserburg

Type: Bed and Breakfast, Restaurant
Physical address: 5 Voortrekker Street
Contact: Ronel le Roux
Fax: 086 673 3443
Tel: 023 741 1870
Fax: 086 673 3443
Cell: 083 227 2407 / 083 417 0531
E-mail: rler@vodamail.co.za

Outuin Country Lodge.

Type: Self Catering
Postal address: PO Box 2, Fraserburg, 6960
Physical address: 15 Voortrekker Street
Contact: Maxi and Japie
Tel: 023 741 1208
Cell: 084 749 1674/082 772 4021

Palmiet Guest Accommodation.

Type: Self Catering
Physical address: 49 Rossouw Street
Cell: 072 783 9196

Posroete.

Type: Bed and Breakfast, Guest House, Self Catering
Physical address: 71 Voortrekker Street
Tel/Fax: 053 631 0394

Witfontein Farm Guest House, Fraserburg.

Type: Guest House, Self Catering, Tented Camp
Location: Witfontein Farm, 25km on the R353 road
Postal address: PO Box 42, Fraserburg, 6960
Contact: Guillau and Lorraine du Toit
Cell: 083 225 3094 (could be 074 646 9976)
E-mail: guillau@gmail.com

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About Fraserburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

Featured image: Old Parsonage Museum, Fraserburg. This house, with its predominantly Cape Dutch characteristics, was designed by the architect H. J. R. Burnett and completed in 1856. Wikipedia.

  • The town lies on a high plateau north of the Nuweveld Mountains
  • Named after a Scottish cleric and immigrant, Rev Colin Fraser.
  • It was founded in the West Nuweveld in 1851
  • Bushmen and Signs of the Bushmen culture can still be found in the vicinity
  • 1 260 m above sea level
  • Nearest Railway station is Leeu Gamka on the N1
  • Connected with Leeu Gamka by a tarred road of 114 km.
  • Municipality – Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality
  • District Municipality – Namakwa District Municipality
  • The Post-Office was opened in 1858, the Magistrate’s Office in 1859, the Police Station in 1860 and the Prison in 1861 (closed in 1968).
  • Die Peperbus, a well-known landmark in Fraserburg, was designed and built as an office in 1861 and stands 8.5m tall with one door and one window and served over the next 150 years as Magistrate’s Private Office, the Market Master’s Office, library, council chamber, School Board Office and Store room.

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Attractions and Events for Fraserburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Fraserburg Logan Drama Festival

Venue: Fraserburg High School
Contact: Peter
Tel: 023 741 1252

History  for Fraserburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

In 1851 it was decided to start a new Dutch Reformed Parish for the growing number of stock farmers in the area. The site of this new parish was the farm Rietfontein. In the same year the new village was surveyed and named Fraserburg in honor of Reverend Colin Fraser, the father of the wife of the Free State’s President, MT Steyn. Of particular note in this town is the Peperbus – a six sided building with one door and one window built in 1861. It was designed as an office by the Reverend Bamberger and has been used as such by the Municipality Market Master, the Magistrate and the Church. Also of interest in Fraserburg are the many well-preserved Victorian-style houses with their elaborate wrought iron ornamentation, which may be found up the side streets.

Museums, Monuments and places of interest for Fraserburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

  • Corbelled House – On the farm Driefontein
  • De Postjes Trail – Fossilised footprints are found in the area
  • Mail Coach Pass – Decline 300 metres over less than a kilometer
  • Museum – In the Old Rectory, it houses a fossil exhibition
  • Peperbus(Pepperbox) – Six-sided Peperbus was built in 1861
  • Powder Magazine Depot – Used by British forces during the Anglo-Boer War
  • Anglican Church – Completed in 1870
  • Kerkplaas – Ruins of the oldest Mission Station in the North West
  • Monument – The grave of Reverend P.D. Rossouw next to the Dutch Reformed Church

Fraserburg Museum

Contact: Vincent Opperman
Tel: 023 741 1012
E-mail: frasermuseum@telkomsa.net

Ou Pastorie Museum.

This building was erected in 1856 to accommodate the first reverend of the newly founded congregation, Rev Carl Arnoldus Bamberger. With roof made from reeds, white washed walls, windows with small panes, elaborate front entrance and discharge pipes, all this give the building a typical Cape Dutch appearance. At one stage, it was the only formal building in the village.
Amazingly, the four inside walls are rounded and it still has the original yellowwood floorboards and some of the original yellowwood ceiling boards. In time some of the ceiling boards warped and were replaced in the early nineteen hundreds with pine. At present the building hosts a museum and fossil display which is well worth a visit.
For access to the museum, and for historical and cultural tours, and tours of the Gansfontein Paleo surface, contact Marthinus Kruger: 084 873 0098

Tourism for Fraserburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Fraserburg Tourism Bureau

Location: The Old Rectory
Tel: 023 741 1012
Fax: 023 741 1257
E-mail: mrs-mun32@xsinet.co.za

Karoo Hoogland Tourism.

Tel: 023 571 1265
Fax: 023 571 1307
E-mail: hooglandtourism@telkomsa.net

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