Year 2000
| EasternCape | WesternCape |
| FreeState | Gauteng |
| KwaZulu | Mpumalanga |
| NorthernCape | NorthernProvince |
| NorthWest | SAEvents |
| SAYouFindums | SouthernCross |
Other Southern
Africa Countries
| Botswana | Lesotho |
| Mocambique | Namibia |
| Swaziland | Zambia |
| Zimbabwe |
EC Addo - Much addo about elephants
EC Bathurst - find the giant
pineapple
EC Barkly Pass
EC Blaauwkrantz Bridge
EC Bluegums - keep your mouth firmly
closed in the cold
EC Coffee Bay
EC Daggaboersnek (Marijuana Farmers
Pass)
EC The JLB Smith Institute for
Ichthyology, Grahamstown
EC Could this be the home of the RAT
run? Naah! Gately House, East London
EC Great Kei River Bridge
EC Hogsback – get there on a
Beemers Back!
EC Take a Beemer to Moshesh’s
Ford
EC The numerical First Beach at Port
St Johns
EC Paul Sauer Bridge (Tsitsikamma)
EC Port Alfred
EC Pyramid
EC St Francis Bay Lighthouse
EC The misspelled road sign to
"Holly in Hall" (Hole in the Wall)
EC Wild Coast Sun
EC 1820 Settlers milestones
Free State
FS Bethlehem - no mangers here
FS Ficksburg Cherry festival (2nd
week november)
FS Gariep Dam
FS Golden Gate
FS The unpronounceable town of
Phuthaditjhaba
Gauteng
GP Beer Museum, Newtown
GP Any Shebeen in Soweto
GP Hartebeeshoek Satellite tracking
station
GP RATanda BMW is all you need for a
Rat Run
GP Mrs Ples - is on the bones of her
bum
GP Sharpeville - site of the infamous
massacre
GP The 1000-year-old Wonderboom wild
fig tree
GP The snappy sounding Tswaing Crater
KwaZulu-Natal
KN Blood River
KN Cathedral Peak
KN De Beers Pass
KN Collins Pass
KN The big Dick King Statue
KN Edwards Restaurant, Dundee
KN Giants Castle
KN The Himeville Arms
KN The Hill of Doves (Amajuba, near
Volksrust)
KN Ixopo
KN Kamberg nature reserve
KN Point Road
KN Rorkes Drift
KN Shaka's Kraal, Empangeni
KN St Lucia – Beware of the
crocodiles sign
KN Stan's Pub in Babanango
KN At Shakaland a Zulu warrior will
pose for you
KN The Queens car in Royal Natal
KN The top-end camp at Kamberg
KN Curry's Post - has nothing to do
with Custers last stand
KN Matatiele
KN Ulundi
KN The smallest church in van Reenen
KN Valley of a thousand hills
Mpumalanga
MP A popular bar in what once was a
church at the Royal Hotel
MP Bourkes Luck was a pothole?
MP Crocodile Bridge Gate
MP A 2 meter concrete muzzleloader in
Jurassic Park?
MP Gods Window
MP Jock of the Bushveld monuments
– you find ‘em! There’s lots!
MP Kowyns Pass
MP Long Tom cannon replica
MP Show what you’re made of at
the Geological Exposure (near Kennedy’s Vale)
MP Hazyview – Sabie R536 road
sign, what a road! Ride it again – this time slow enough to see the scenery!
MP Highest point in Mpumalanga
(between Roosenekal and afgrond)
MP The highest point on Long Tom Pass
MP Old Joe
MP Jeppes Reef
MP Josefsdal
MP Saddleback (Barberton)
MP The Dullstroom Inn
MP Three Rondavels
Northern Province
NP I’m on the road to Nobody
NP Baobab tree reserve
NP Pontdrif – take the cable car
across the Limpopo river. Lose all bonus points if you take your bike with you.
NP Bokdrolspoegfees (The Goat
Droppings Spitting Contest – Real men spurn watermelon pips!) Warmbaths. Bonus points
for joining in
NP the Lost City
NP JG Strijdom Tunnel
NP Magoebaskloof
NP Makapansgat
NP The tropic of Capricorn
NP The false eye of the Nile
NP Pafuri Gate - This is the top
North East Point of SA
NP Rustenburg
NP Thabazimbi
NP Thohoyandou
NP Vaalwater
NP Venda Sun
NP Warmbaths
Northern Cape
NC Alexander Bay, Diamonds are
forever
NC The Big Hole - is this all there
is to Kimberly?
NC Griquastad
NC It’s not just warm here -
it’s… Hotazel
NC Tintel se Winkel - Kanoneiland
NC The monocular Eye of Kuruman
NC The waterwheel in Keimoes
NC Marydale - could this be the
centre of the most boring road?
NC The old steam pump in Nababiep
NC The old wagon bridge near the
optimistic Hopetown
NC The Roaring Sands of the Kalahari
NC Pofadder (puff adder) the brigand
was no snake
NC Pirates Cove, Port Nolloth
NC The Springbok Cafe
NC Three Sisters
North West Province
NW Terra Firma, its the end of the
world as we know it!
NW Groot Marico Mampoer (white
lightning) Still. Do not ride after this one.
NW The tonsorial town of Barberspan
NW Knock Knock.Who’s there?
Mafikeng. Mafikeng Who? Mafikeng bike won’t start
NW BOOF paradise, Fossil Hill (near
Jan Kemp dorp)
Western Cape
WC Bainskloof
WC Bloubergstrand, Table
Mountain’s the view to show
WC BMW Display at the Waterfront
WC Cape Agulhus Lighthouse, the
Southern most point of Africa, where two oceans meet
WC Cape Columbine Lighthouse
WC Cape Point
WC Du Toits Kloof tunnel
WC the old Sidney Fort above Bains
Tunnel In Cogmans Kloof
WC Franschoek
WC Granite mountain shines like a
pearl
WC RATelfontein
WC Smouswinkel, Greyton
WC The whale crier, Hermanus
WC Lamberts Bay
WC Malgas Ferry
WC Matjiesfontein Station
WC Meiringspoort (Meirngs Pass) twist
and turn across the Meirings river 32 times in 21 kays
WC Oudtshoorn Farm – ride an
Ostrich
WC The ghost of a female hitch hiker
at Outeniqua Pass Hitches rides from passing motorcyclists.
WC Stand Knysna on its Heads
WC The quake stricken town of Tulbagh
WC Tsitsikama forest
WC The town named after the Roman
goddess of agriculture
WC The misspelled Wale Street (Cape
Town)
Southern Cross
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Cape Point, Johannesburg, Beit
Bridge, Durban, Walvis Bay (about 2000km n-s, and about 3000 km e-w, about 8-10,000 km in
all)
Ride the 29th
Parallel - West Coast to East Coast
Port Nolloth, Springbok, Kakamas,
Uppington, Grobbelaarshoop, Griekwastad, Campbell, Kimberley, Boshof, Brandfort, Winburg,
Clarens, Harrismith, Ladysmith, Dundee, Babanango, Melmoth, Richards Bay
Southern African You
Findums
? The BMW Roundel building
? Your bike and any one of the Big 5
(Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Leopard, Rhino)
? Your bike under a Baobab tree / ?
Kokerboom (Quiver Tree) / Naboom Tree
? Your bike and a "Beware of
elephants / game / crocodiles.." etc sign
? Wild dog crossing sign
? A Beemer parked next to a pile of
elephant dung in a McDonalds parking lot
? A post office tree
? A toilet in a tree trunk
? A pub in a baobab tree trunk
(Leydsdorp) - strictly speaking this is two anomalies in one!
? The site of the first Buffalo Rally
? Any Diaz cross
? Highest falls in Southern Africa
((Maletsunyane falls, near Semonkong, Lesotho)
? The highest point in Southern
Africa (Lesotho)
? The most boring road in Southern
Africa (You decide)
? how many Voortrekker streets can
you find?
Southern African Events
Africa Friendship Safari (Destination
Zanzibar, via Beit Bridge, Mutare, Tete, Malawi Lake resorts, Mbeya, Iringa, Dar Es
Salaam, Zanzibar) email bikesa@icon.co.za
Any Toy Run
Namib Desert Run
The Snowball Run
The Buffalo Rally
The Impala Rally
The Paradise Rally
The Ulysses Rally (only if you
qualify - members only)
World Superbike Championships Round 1
World Championship GP
Other Southern
African Countries
Bains Baobab (Makgadigadi Pans)
Drotsky’s Caves
Francistown
Gcwihaba caves
Ghanzi
Khama Rhino Sanctuary
Martins Drift
Maun – Rileys Bar
Makgadigadi Pans
Nata Bird Sanctuary
Okavango Swamps
Sibuyu Forest Reserve
Tshabong
Tuli Block
Lesotho
Cannibal Caves
The highest Pub in Africa
Ha Chooko mission station
Koma Koma Bridge (causeway)
Katse Dam
Lesotho – traditional horseman
St Benedict mission station
Traditional young cow/goat-herd
Mokhotlong
Mokopung – the end of the road
Oxbow
Qacha’s Nek
Sani Pass
Thabana – Ntlenyana, highest
mountain in Southern Africa (3482 metres)
Africas largest straw hat
Namibia
Ai-Ais
Devils Playground
Dune 7
Fish River Canyon view point (Hobas)
Ghost Mining town, Luderitz
Giant Baobab tree, Kaokoland
Gods knuckle broke here
Hoba Meteorite
Kokerboom (quiver tree) Forest
Kaiser Wilhelm Street
Lake Otjikoto
Quiver Tree (Kokerboom) Forest (north
of Keetmanshoop)
Ruacana Falls
Sesriem
Sossusvlei
Skeleton Coast
The edible Sandwich Harbor
Walvis (Whale) Bay
Windhoek
Zambesi River at Katima Mulilo
Mocambique
Beira
Cahora Bassa Dam
Inhambane
Linga Linga
Ponta do Ouro
Pemba
Maputo
Xai Xai
Zambesi river bridge at Tete
Swaziland
Big Bend
Cultural village, Ezulwini
Foresters Arms Hotel
Havelock Asbestos Mine
Hlane Royal National Park
Manzini
Mbabane, Swazi Market
Zambia
Kasangula Ferry
Livingstone
Mazabuko
Zimbabwe
Birchenough Bridge
Bunga Forest Botanical Reserve
Chimanimani Hot Springs
Christmas Pass
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
Halfway House National Monument
Hwange National Park
Kariba Ferry Ride
Lion and Elephant Motel
Mbare Musika Market
Matobo Hills (Worlds View, Cecil John
Rhodes Grave)
A photo of a sausage tree
Termite Hill
Does Norton leak oil?
Victoria Falls
PLUS Vic Falls has the world’s
highest commercial bunghee jump. Do it for bonus points. Do it nude for bonus bonus
points.
South African Rat Run compiled by Shaun Powell - mailto:shaunp@lycosmail.com