Sad news .. less tan 500 m from my house
A plane crashed onto Vergelegen, the historic farm, outside Somerset West in the Western Cape late on Tuesday afternoon, emergency services personnel said.
"I can only confirm that there was a plane crash," said Johan Schutte of the emergency and rescue services in Somerset West.
It is not yet known if there were any fatalities or what caused the crash, but a civil aviation investigation was underway.
Vergelegen dates to the governorship of Willem Adriaan van der Stel in the 17th Century.
A helicopter crashed in Vereeniging, Johannesburg, on Tuesday afternoon less than 24 hours after a pilot was killed after his helicopter crashed into a house in Benoni on the East Rand. - Sapa