Sizwe Traditional Geocache
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To get to the cache, you need to go through a boom gate, that says access hours are daily from 10:00 - 17:00. We have no idea how strictly this is adhered to, as we have driven past at other times when the gate was open.
Cache is big enough & contains some toys.
Brief history:
The Sizwe Hospital was first established in 1895, then called the Rietfontein Hospital. The hospital was originally established to treat smallpox and plague. Its last smallpox case was treated in 1965, the disease having been brought under control worldwide in the last decade or two. By then it was treating tropical diseases and in 1995 its name was changed to the Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital, the only tropical disease hospital south of the Sahara. Diseases treated include malaria, typhoid and occasional cases of Congo fever, but primarily TB patients. The hospital works closely with Wits University, the South African Institute of Medical Research and the Department of Virology. It is also a teaching hospital, training nurses from the Free State and Swaziland in the treatment of TB.
The hospital is also famous for another reason: its spread of a dozen blue and red iron-roofed, wrap-around veranda buildings is reminiscent of another era - turn of the 20th century Victorian Johannesburg - and ideal for period movie settings. Scenes from "Cry the Beloved Country" were shot here, and the hospital is still approached regularly for permission to film on its premises.
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