Kowyn Pass is situated in Mpumalanga province, on the R533 road between Graskop and Bosbokrand, South Africa.

When rock falls continued despite the area being anchored, the Transvaal Provincial Roads Authority decided in 1977 to construct a reinforced concrete rockfall shelter as a permanent and fail-safe protective measure.

[2] The pass is believed to have been built along an ancient pedestrian route which connected the lowveld to higher areas towards the west.

He settled his faction of the Pulana tribe on the Graskop escarpment, after the Swazis scattered them from a former settlement near Pretoriuskop.

[3] They were Sotho-speaking people who were initially displaced from the highveld by the disturbances of the Mfecane,[4] and subsequently migrated northwards to escape raids by the Swazis.