On Market Square

26/05/2026

The Barberton annual comp Paragliding is open for 2026 🪂. Make sure you join us for the week of flying over bushveld.
Paragliders travel to Barberton specifically because the ridge lift in June is reliable and scenery is unique ⛰️.
For more information: Lowveld Slope Soaring Club - Natie de Klerk 082 758 5845
Email:[email protected]

📷 Andrea Coralie Els
Barberton Adventures
Barberton Tourism
Barberton Golf Club
Kruger Lowveld Tourism

23/05/2026

From gold-rush boomtown to UNESCO World Heritage destination, Barberton has had to balance preservation with progress.

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

Wishing you a joyous time with all your loved ones, mom's❣️

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧

Long before Barberton’s streets were surveyed, its hotels filled and its mines began producing the gold that would make it famous, there was another place in the De Kaap Valley where hopeful prospectors first gathered. That place was Jamestown, a small, rough diggers’ camp that today survives only in scattered historical references but which played a crucial role in the earliest days of the Barberton gold rush.

Jamestown emerged in the early 1880s during the first tentative searches for gold in the valleys and streams of the Lowveld. At a time when the region was still remote and largely unexplored by European prospectors, small parties of diggers moved through the De Kaap Valley, testing riverbeds and gullies for alluvial gold. It was in this experimental phase of prospecting that Jamestown began to take shape.

Read more here: https://dekaapecho.co.za/jamestown-the-forgotten-gold-camp-that-came-before-barberton/



Image: The exact location of Jamestown is not widely marked, but it was high up in the Makhonjwa Mountains.
Image prompt: Anchen Coetzee.

31/03/2026

We are trading over the Easter Weekend
Friday to Monday
8h00 to 14h00