Askari Game Lodge & Spa, just outside of the village of Magaliesburg (one hour from Johannesburg and Pretoria in Gauteng) is being renamed to African Hills Safari Lodge & Spa and this should be in place by October 2021. The new name is a fitting representation of its panoramic setting.
In 2001, Mr Giuseppe Plumari purchased the farm and turned it into a game reserve on which the present lodge is built. In 2009, Guvon Hotels...
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ROBERT MOFFAT, MISSIONARY The next three episodes of this series will focus on early European visitors to the Magaliesberg region. One of the most remarkable of these was the Scottish missionary Robert Moffat. He was born on 21 December 1795 in Ormiston, Scotland. His parents were not wealthy, and at the age of 13, he was apprenticed to a gardener (Moffat 1889, p. 5). It was hard, physical labour, which no doubt developed...
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