Battlefields

Blood River Museum & Heritage Site

Blood River Battlefield, Dundee Area, KwaZulu-Natal

213 | 16 December 1838 On the 16 December 1838 the Zulu Army numbering some 12 000 warriors and led … Read More

Spion Kop Battlefield

Spioenkop/Spion Kop Battlefield, Bergville Area, KwaZulu-Natal

713 | 24 January 1900 Certainly the most futile and bloodiest of five battles fought in an effort to relieve … Read More

La Route du Prince Imperial

KwaZulu Natal

413 | La Route du Prince Impérial, Louis Napoléon La Route du Prince Impérial, Louis Napoléon, launched on 1 June … Read More

Grave of Piet Retief

Grave of Piet Retief, Ulundi Area, KwaZulu-Natal

214 | Piet Retief and his party were executed here on the orders of King Dingane. The Memorial is near … Read More

Spearman’s Military Cemetery

Spearman's Military Cemetery, Ladysmith/Winterton, KwaZulu-Natal

714 | On R600 between Ladysmith and Winterton. Near the site of No 4 Stationary Hospital during Gen Sir Redvers … Read More

Ulundi Battlefield

Ulundi Battlefield, Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal

414 | 4 July 1879 On the 4 July 1879 Lt Gen. Lord Chelmsford crossed the White Mfolozi River and … Read More

Ophathe Battlefield

Ulundi Area, Part of Emakhosini Opathe Park, KwaZulu-Natal

215 | 27 December 1838 When the Wenkommando reached Mthonjaneni, they were deceived by a Zulu named Bongoza into believing … Read More

Chieveley Military Cemetery

Chieveley Military Cemetery, Colenso Area, KwaZulu-Natal

715 | Site of No 4 Stationary Hospital. Burial place of Field Marshal Lord Roberts’s son Lt. Freddie Roberts. Turn … Read More

The British Military Cemetery

Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal

415 | On the outskirts of the town on the way to the dam the town cemetery is on the … Read More

Petrus Lafras Uys Memorial

Petrus Lafras Uys Memorial, Kerk Straat, Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal

416 | Petrus Lafras Uys was one of the original settlers in this area in 1847. He was the first … Read More

Vaalkrans Battlefield

Vaalkrans Battlefield, Ladysmith/Winterton Area, KwaZulu-Natal

716 | 5-7 February 1900 Fourth unsuccessful attempt by Gen. Buller to relieve Ladysmith. Scene of the British feint movement … Read More

Barefoot Lady

Barefoot Lady, Olivier’s Hoek Pass Area, KwaZulu-Natal

216 | After the British occupation of Natal in 1842 many of the Trekkers decided to migrate either back over … Read More

Battle of uThukela (Tugela) Heights

Battle of Thukela Heights, Colenso/Ladysmith Area, KwaZulu-Natal

717 | 12-28 February 1900 In a massive combined operation General Buller’s troops fought numerous battles on the south bank … Read More

The Grave of Marthinus Oosthuyse

The Grave of Marthinus Oosthuyse, Winterton Area, KwaZulu-Natal

217 | 17 February 1838 Marthinus became one of the heroes of the Trek when on the 17th February 1838, … Read More

Helpmekaar Battlesite

Helpmekaar Cemetery, Helpmekaar, KwaZulu-Natal

718 | 13 May 1900 British forces broke through the Boer line in Biggarsberg Resulting in the British recapturing Dundee. … Read More

Botha’s Pass Battlefield

Botha's Pass Battlefield, Newcastle Area. KwaZulu-Natal

719 | 8 June 1900 On 8 June 1900 Gen Buller advanced some 22 000 men and 26 guns against … Read More

Alleman’s Nek Battlefield

Alleman's Nek Battlefield, Volksrust Area, Mpumalanga

720 | This was the battle where the British forces under Gen. Buller finally broke through the Boer forces and … Read More

Scheepersnek Battlefield

Scheepersnek Battlefield, Vryheid Area, KwaZulu-Natal

721 | 20 May 1900 75 Swaziland Police and Vryheid burghers were stationed here. During a church service a Squadron … Read More

Lancaster Hill

Lancaster Hill, Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal

722 | 11-12 December 1900 The hill overlooking Vryheid was occupied by 900 men of the Lancaster Regt who fortified … Read More

Capt.Pokrowski Memorial and Wall of Remembrance

Capt.Pokrowski Memorial and Wall of Remembrance, Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal

723 | 25 December 1900 25 December 1900. Memorial to Polish officer in the Russian army, who died fighting in … Read More

Fugitives’ Drift Lodge by Philasande Buthelezi

I like this accommodation one day I want to visit

Mpande’s Grave – Nodwengu Museum by Ntuthuko

Ngwenya comes from Ngwenyama or Ngonyama in popular Zulu tick. Also called Nkuna or Gona or Chuka (Kenya) or Ngcuka or Kau or Khalo or lokha or Ilunga (Congo). The Congolese hold that it is the Ilunga tribe of the Lunda-Luba who became Zulus but tge word Lunda-Luba is another way of writing Zulu as Lunda = Elephant = Ndou = Zhou = Tlou = Ndlovu =Njobvu (Swahili-Kenyan) then Lunda-Luba becomes Zhou-Luba which is then Zuluba or BaZulu like how Sotobe = Besoto. When writing in French English alphabet-spelling Zulu becomes Zhoulou or Soulou. Zulus are native all over th3 world lioe South East Asia, India, South Pacific and Australia where black people are indigenous before current settlers ans dominant cultures stayed there. That is why all these countries have a sizable black population and they did not go there as slaves but they were found there by Chinese, White and India settlers. That is why they all have an indiginous black people problem. Anyway, the Phillipines and Indonesian Zulus were called Sulu - and they called themselves Maharlinka (Maluleka- KaMnyeni or KaCele or Khangela - npw callinh themselves Xhosa and living in the Eastern Cape) and Macabebe (BakaBhebhe - Mhlongo - now calling themselv3s Sothos or Barolong ba ga ... also called Zungu or Zongo or Ngozo). I also have pictures of them looking pretty black and African. They lived there in the 1200s -1600s when the Dutch deported them to South Africa, some went to live in Papua New Guinea, Australia and West Papua province of Indonesia. There are records that indicate that these Sulus who were Islam like Zwide and Dingaan (anywhere you find their people in Africa, a large portion of Bantus are muslim). Their princes were called Tuan, we call them Mntwana. I have done a lot of research on them, they were black. Only a few years after slavery ended did King Shaka rise to power.

La Route du Prince Imperial by Pascal PELE

Hello, Thank you for your helpful website ! With a group of friends of French Napoleonic Society (Le Souvenir Napoléonien) , we would like to make a short visit of Prince imperial's tomb next year, before going to St Helena island, when it will be possible to do so. As we land in Joburg, we intend to rent cars or small vans to come across directly and find accomodation in the area for one day. How long does it take to reach Uqweqwe from Joburg airport by car, according to you ? And is it easy with a normal car or do you think we need to take a 4WD ? Otherwise, is there any organised tours there and where could we pick them ? Dundee may be ? What are the different possibilities of accomadation in the area ? And apart from the tomb, what could we see easily on our way ? Thank you very much Yours faithfully Pascal Pelé (Cherbourg / Normandy /France