South Africa Dream Holidays
Eastern Cape Holidays
The Eastern cape will always keep you interested with it's landscape changes. You will find the arid Karoo, you will also love the lush green Tsitsikamma Forest and fertile river valleys.
Spend some of your time at one of the main public game reserve in the area. You will find the Addo Elephant Park a great place to take the family. The Eastern Cape is mainly a grain and fruit producing agricultural region.
You will find various hiking trails that within the valleys and cliffs of the mountainous regions of the Eastern Cape and they leave you breathless with their views. You may also feel free to treat yourself to some really rare and unique rock paintings within the eastern cape area.
Eastern Cape in the news
Come to our party, says festive COPE Business Day, South Africa - Eastern Cape COPE spokesman Nkosifikile Gqomo said party members gave out COPE information brochures and party regalia from a "COPE-coloured bakkie" . ... Race is on for struggle heartland ANC election campaign off to a big start |
Zim teacher wins long battle for work permit Dispatch Online, South Africa - Zwelani Ncube moved to South Africa in 2007 after he successfully applied to take up a job as an English teacher at Molteno High School in the Eastern Cape. ... |
 BBC News | What lies ahead for Africa in 2009? BBC News, UK - Cope hopes to gain control of key provinces such as Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape and stop the ANC from winning a two-thirds majority in parliament ... Zuma set to tie the knot for a fifth time |
Big drop in Bay's festive season road fatalities The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - Eastern Cape provincial traffic deputy director Charles Bramwell said his task team had arrested more than 644 people in the area in December for drunken ... |
Half of Eastern Cape matrics fail The Times, South Africa - Barely half of the pupils who wrote the matric exam in the Eastern Cape passed, according to provincial education MEC Mahlubandile Qwase. ... East Cape bottom of class Worst EC results since 2001 Vast difference in performance at region's schools |
Trouble in the classroom - Laura Miti Dispatch Online, South Africa - I AM no prophetess but I can predict with a good degree of accuracy that at this time next year, the Eastern Cape will be engaged in yet another discussion ... |
Blackburn Rovers sign up Siphika Dispatch Online, South Africa - Siphika, who has been capped six-times for Bafana-Bafana, also played for Maritzburg United before returning to the Eastern Cape last season to play for ... |
Woman held over unlicensed guns Independent Online, South Africa - A 26-year-old woman was arrested after she was found in possession of three firearms and ammunition at her home in Lusizi locality in Centane, Eastern Cape ... |
Eight die as trucks collide on N2 Independent Online, South Africa - Eight people were killed and three others were seriously injured when two trucks collided on the N2 road between Butterworth and Idutywa, Eastern Cape ... |
 AfricaNews | Cops winning war against road deaths The Times, South Africa - In Western Cape, the toll dropped from 169 to 74. In Eastern Cape, there were 104 fewer deaths compared to 2007-2008. The toll this year was 92. ... Heavy traffic may swell fatalities Massive trek back to Gauteng 885 killed in SA road deaths |