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THE ROYAL MARANG HOTEL 5 STAR LUXURY HOTEL & HIGH PERFORMANCE CENTRE
Conferencing @ Marang
Surrounded by heritage The Royal Marang Hotel, a five-star hotel located in the North West, near Rustenburg, is surrounded by heritage sites dating back many centuries.
The sophisticated and luxury conference facilities at the Royal Marang Hotel guarantee your business or leisure event will run according to plan. Ideally appointed for executive conferences, business planning sessions and your lavish private function, this 5-star hotel’s facilities are complemented by personalised services and a discreetly stylish setting.
Sports Campus @ Marang
Surrounding the luxurious 5-star Royal Marang Hotel, the Sports Campus @ Marang provides a comprehensive set of outdoor facilities for a variety of sports. It is made up of a world-class training base with a range of professionally-designed sports fields. Lying at the high altitude of 1,200m above sea level, the campus is ideally located for professional and amateur sports people who seek the benefits of high altitude training. The sports campus is enhanced by a fully equipped, dedicated medical and rehabilitation centre. Please note that these facilities can be rented. Rentals may be short term or longer term and may be for single facilities or combinations of facilities to suit your purpose.
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he Royal Marang Hotel houses a high performance centre known as the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus. The idea of building the hotel for the Bafokeng community was conceived prior to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH) is a community-based investment company whose growth uplifts and creates inter-generational wealth for the Royal Bafokeng Nation (RBN), a 100 000 strong Setswana-speaking community in South Africa’s North West province. The hotel has a dedicated five-star conferencing and events facilities. One room holds 70 people in cinema-style; two other smaller rooms each hold 35; while the Clubhouse Centre holds 200 cinemastyle. There is also a raked 60-seater auditorium. The hotel has 64 luxury doubles and four presidential suites. Many of the battles fought in the AngloBoer War took place in the hills and valleys not far from where the Royal Marang Hotel is situated.
Paul Kruger Museum
Some of the heritage sites: Kgosi Manotshe Mansion
Lutheran Mission Complex, Saron
This house belonged to Kgosi Manotshe, the 33rd king of the Bafokeng Nation who ruled from 1938 to 1956. The house remains incomplete because its architectural design was only known to Kgosi Manotshe who died before its completion.
The Saron Lutheran Mission (also known as Hermannsburg Mission) was the first Christian mission to be established in Phokeng. It was built in 1867 on land that was jointly purchased by the church and the Bafokeng.
Kedar Country Lodge houses the Paul Kruger Museum in what used to be his hunting lodge.
Direpotsane Hill Direpotsane Hill is of great historic significance to the Royal Bafokeng nation. From the early 1800s until the mid-1960s, this hill was the seat of the royal house.
Spooner Memorial Reverend Kenneth Spooner, of the Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC), was the first African American pastor to work among Bafokeng. He arrived in Phokeng in 1915 and was allocated land by the royal family to build a church and a school.
Kutwane Hill Kutwane Hill is said to have been used as a rain-making site up to the mid-20th Century. The Hill is regarded as sacred by many.