Museums

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

Victoria Street, Dundee, 3000, South Africa

This collection has been relocated from Mtonjoneni Lodge to Talana Museum due to a change in ownership of the lodge. … 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

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

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

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

The Msunduzi / Voortrekker Museum

351 Langalibalele Street, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal

Since the 1990’s, the Msunduzi Museum in Pietermaritzburg has been transformed from a historically single-themed museum to one that depicts … Read More

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

Baynesfield Museums

Baynesfield Museums, Pietermaritzburg Area, KwaZulu Natal

Nestled in the Natal Midlands the Baynesfield Estate, close to Richmond, was founded by Joseph Baynes in 1863. His beautiful … Read More

O’Neil’s Cottage by Delicia

Margaret, Ellen Norah Wilson married Stephen Gregory. Stephen Gregory's father was John Henry O'neill, family tree is on Family Search. Spelling of O'neill varies, my grandfather was O'neill, his brother was O'neil.

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.