Car rental agencies for car rental in Africa have agencies in all the major cities within South Africa. Should you wish to have a rental car for a longer period, you could consider car leasing. The rates are reduced for leasing and you will have the freedom to explore places like the Magaliesberg area. Here you will find the caves at Sterkfonetin, 25 km south of the mountains; these caves have provided archaeologists with the most significant finds of early humans. The “Mrs.Ples” skelton was discovered, here and was carbon dated at roughly 2.3 million years old. The tribes of the ancestors of the earliest proto-hominids had reigned in this ancient valley, they fished the clear streams and hunted the enormous herds of animals that roamed the plains with tools made initially from stone and later forged from iron.

A group of Kwena people moved into the Magaliesberg and the Kwena chief at the time, Modimosana, The Kwena Mmatau, became the dominant group. In the early 1800’s they had constructed stone walled villages all along the southern slopes spanning the mountain passes that early ivory traders used on their way to the Cape. These traders and other travellers called the mountains Cashan after Kgwashwane, the powerful chief of the Kwena Mmatau and it remained that name until early 1840