--- title: "Polokwane – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Polokwane, South Africa: Polokwane, formerly and sometimes also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Every…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polokwane" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polokwane.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Polokwane%2C_Limpopo%2C_South_Africa_%282417714241%29.jpg" --- City in Limpopo, South Africa # Polokwane Polokwane, formerly and sometimes also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. ![Polokwane](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Polokwane%2C_Limpopo%2C_South_Africa_%282417714241%29.jpg) Polokwane · Wikimedia Commons The place Polokwane, formerly and sometimes also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is the country's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It was also one of the nine host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polokwane), CC BY-SA 4.0. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see 1. Polokwane Art Museum 70 Schoemann Street (At Danie Hough Cultural Centre, Library Gardens Complex),. 2. The Irish House Polokwane Museum, Market St & Thabo Mbeki Street,. 3. Hugh Exton Photographic Museum 4. Bakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open Air Museum From [Wikivoyage: Polokwane](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Polokwane), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do 1. Polokwane Game Reserve Polokwane Game Reserve offers excellent game viewing of as many as 21 species including white rhino, sable antelope and giraffe. From [Wikivoyage: Polokwane](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Polokwane), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Polokwane **Airports:** Polokwane (PTG), 6 km · Kruger Mpumalanga (MQP), 235 km · Lanseria (HLA), 274 km\ - Johannesburg → Polokwane 293 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · R285–380 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/johannesburg-to-polokwane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Johannesburg&to=Polokwane) - Mbombela → Polokwane 231 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · R275–365 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mbombela-to-polokwane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mbombela&to=Polokwane) - Durban → Polokwane 680 km · quickest by road, 10h 18m · R780–1,040 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/durban-to-polokwane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Durban&to=Polokwane) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Polokwane) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Polokwane Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Polokwane. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are also minibus taxis from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Mbombela and Musina. From [Wikivoyage: Polokwane](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Polokwane), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [South Luangwa National Park and Mfuwe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-luangwa) ZM 12 ways of moving, 36 sources 1,226 km 2. [Cape Maclear (Chembe)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cape-maclear) MW 8 ways of moving, 32 sources 1,237 km 3. [Sossusvlei](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sossusvlei) NA 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 1,429 km 4. [Ilha de Moçambique](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ilha-de-mocambique) MZ 11 ways of moving, 47 sources 1,538 km 5. [Zanzibar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zanzibar) TZ 8 ways of moving, 30 sources 2,228 km If you know how people move in Polokwane – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpolokwane&title=Polokwane&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpolokwane), and the note gets an entry. [The place page for Polokwane](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/polokwane) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on South Africa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-ZA) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polokwane, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt