New mobile app travels N4 to Botswana

The app's author, Peter Delmar, has now boosted the content available, giving travellers along South Africa's (in)famous N4 - the road to Botswana - with interesting anecdotes and lesser known stories of the area. The audio features stories derived from his road book, 'The Platinum Road', covering the route from Gauteng to Botswana along the N4 highway and the N1 between Pretoria and Bela Bela.

Sponsored by Bakwena, the Platinum Road app contains images, maps and stories about the history of Gauteng and North West, including anecdotes about vast vanished Tswana cities and the Anglo-Boer War, quaint towns and settlements, frogs and mining. The stories can be listened to anywhere in the world but, on the road, are triggered by a smartphone or tablet's inbuilt GPS functionality, without the user incurring any data charges.

Download the app here.