Museums | Battlefields Route

Talana Museum, Battlefield and Heritage Park

Victoria Street, Dundee, 3000, South Africa

701 | 20 October 1899 Talana Museum, situated three kilometres outside Dundee on the Vryheid road, is no repository of … Read More

Ncome Zulu Cultural Museum

Ncome Zulu Cultural Museum, Ncome/Blood River, KwaZulu Natal

This neat museum just across the river from the wagon laager at Blood River gives a fascinating insight into the … Read More

Ladysmith Siege Museum

151 Murchison Street, Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

703 | Acclaimed as one of the best Anglo Boer War museums in South Africa, its displays on the famous … Read More

Fort Durnford

Fort Durnford, Escourt, KwaZulu Natal

Erected shortly after the Langalibalele Rebellion to counter raiding San(Bushmen). Magnificent stone structure overlooking the town of Estcourt. Houses a … Read More

Mtonjaneni Zulu Historical Museum

Mtonjaneni Museum, Ulundi Area, KwaZulu Natal

Mtonjaneni Lodge just off the R34 east of the Ulundi turn off. Museum contains a considerable number of artefacts recovered … Read More

Fort Nongqayi Musuem Village

Fort Nongqayi Museum Village, Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal

The Zululand Historical Museum is housed at Fort Nongqayi. The Fort was built in 1883 by the British to house … Read More

Ondini Cultural Museum and site of King Cetshwayo’s Royal Residence

eMakhosini Opathe Heritage Park, Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal

105 | Open-air museum and partially reconstructed isigodlo (harem) of King Cetshwayo’s royal residence as well as Ondini Cultural Museum. … Read More

Fort Amiel Museum

Fort Amiel, 4 Fort Street, Amiel Park, Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal

506 | Fort Amiel was opened as the Cultural History Museum of Newcastle in 1990 at the restored British military … Read More

The Lucas Meijer House Museum

The Lucas Meijer House Museum, Landdrost Street, Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal

BACKGROUND The aftermath of the Anglo Zulu War of 1879 left Zululand divided into several fiefdoms each with its own … Read More

Nieuwe Republiek Museum

113 Landdrost Straat, Vryheid, 3100

The Nieuwe Republiek (1884 – 1888) was one of 16 independent republics that came into being in South Africa before … Read More

Old Parsonage Museum

Old Parsonage Museum, Utrecht, KwaZulu Natal

Once the home of the Dutch Reformed Church Pastor Rev. Neethling now houses the Utrecht Museum. Emergency numbers are 067 … Read More

Mandela Capture Site

Mandela Capture Site, Howick Area, KwaZulu Natal

On the 5th August 1962 Nelson Mandela was apprehended at this site and taken into captivity and incarcerated, mainly on … Read More

Fort Prospect by Sanja

Thank you! It is most interesting! We appreciate your effort!

Fort Mistake by Steve Chapple

We stayed there once or twice on the way from Bulawayo to Uvongo on the South Coast. This was in the mid to late 60s. I was a child at the time. I remember a small dam on the property that had some type of waterfowl. I think we walked up to see the fort.

Rensburg Koppie by Jan

Gooday, I have studied a lot of history concerning this heroic deed but cannot find reverence about the girl that he rescued ? Is there more information ? Thank you Jan.