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Matjiesfontein Tourism Bureau
Lord Milner Hotel, Logan Street
Tel: 023 561 3011
Seemingly in the middle of nowhere right next to the N1, lies the village of Matjiesfontein. The village was founded in the 1880s by James Douglas Logan in the dry Laingsburg district of the Cape as a health resort. It attracted a large number of famous visitors, especially in the 1890s. Among them was Cecil J Rhodes, Olive Schreiner, the sultan of Zanzibar and Winston Churchill's father Lord Randolph. The historic village takes its name from a reed (matjiesgoed) used as matting that grows in the area. The entire village has been declared a National Monument in 1975.
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