Historical sites in Bothaville

The town offers a number of buildings of historical interest. The town hall was declared a national monument in 1995 and there is also a museum in President Street.

The oldest building in the Maize Capital is a small three-room sandstone building in President Street erected for the amount of £62 in 1894 by the first Town Council to serve as a police station and prison. The second oldest building is the Dutch Reformed Vicarage – a beautiful sandstone building built in 1898. The same architect who designed the famous Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, Gerhard Moerdyk, designed the impressive Dutch Reformed Mother church, built with sandstone in 1918. The granite Doornkraal Monument was built in honour of Boers who died in a surprise attack by British Soldiers in November 1900.

NAMPO Festival

One of the largest privately organised and owned exhibitions in the world and the largest show of agricultural machinery and livestock in the southern hemisphere take place annually outside Bothaville.

Organised by Grain South Africa (GSA), it provides a unique opportunity to all manufacturers and distributors of agricultural machinery, products and services to exhibit as well as demonstrate their vast range of products to their targeted customers – the farmers of South Africa. Controlled practical demonstrations of machinery and implements are a unique feature of the Show which allows farmers to view demonstrations of an exhaustive range of machinery and implements, establish their performance and effectiveness and use this knowledge for product purchases in future. The next exhibition is scheduled to take place from 18 to 21 May 2010.

Sport and Recreation

Various modern sport facilities are also available, including a 9-hole golf course, soccer and cricket fields and tennis courts. Angling and other water sports are catered for on the Vals River. The Maize Tourism Forum can be contacted at tel. (056) 515 3032 for more information.

Wesselsbron

Places of interest include the biggest grain silo in the southern part of Africa. Well-preserved San Bushmen paintings can be seen on the farm Boskop. The Wesselsbron Tourism Bureau can be contacted at tel. (057) 899-1818.