The city of Polokwane has a flourishing tourist industry thanks to its scenic setting and sunshine. Tourists can visit the city's favourites include the Eersteling Monuments, which commemorate the country's first gold crushing site and gold power plant. Then there are the Bakone open air Northern Sotho museum, the Hugh Exton photographic museum with a glass collection of some 22 000 pieces and the eye catching green Irish House, a prefabricated structure which was shipped to Polokwane many years ago.The Polokwane Art museum displays the magnificent and growing 1000 piece art collection of the Municipality. The collection is regarded as the most extensive outside the major art galleries in the country.The Polokwane Game Reserve and Bird Sanctuary both offer tourists exciting game and bird viewing as well as beautiful hiking trails.
Polokwane is the provincial capital of Limpopo Province. It is the largest city in the north of the country, and the major economic hub in the province. It is centrally positioned within the Capricorn District Municipality, 60Km South of the Tropic of Capricorn, making a large part of the region easily accessible.The city of Polokwane's proximity as the nearest major centre to the neighbouring countries of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland, makes it an ideal international gateway and good destination in itself. The excellent climate makes Polokwane an ideal place to live and also promotes sport and recreation. Summer rainfall varies between 400 - 600mm per year.Polokwane exhibits all the signs of an growing and successful area. It enjoys excellent tourism activity, coordinated health and education clusters, fertile agricultural lands and bountiful production with prosperous industrial activities. Nonetheless, unemployment and poverty, although high; the level of unemployment at 41,4% remains a cause for government's concern.
