The Graskop gorge lift is Africa's first viewing elevator, according to one of its developers, CEO of the Graskop Gorge Lift Company (GGLC), Oupa Pilane. The elevator travels 50 metres down the face of the Graskop gorge and into the afromontane forest below.

"It’s not every day that you get to see this in the Thaba Chweu area," said the Mayor of the local municipality, Selina Mashego-Segobela in her compliments to the lift's developers: Pilane, Campbell Scott and James Sheard - who entered into a partnership with the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) to finance the project.