7 | The South African / Anglo Boer War 1899 – 1902

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

Elandslaagte Battlefield

Elandslaagte Battlefield, Glencoe/Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

702 | 21 October 1899 The Boers occupied the railway Station on the 20th October and early the following morning … 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

Wagon Hill Battle Site

Wagon Hill Battle Site, Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

704 | Battle of Wagon Hill 6th January 1900 The Battle of Wagon Hill and Caesar’s Camp was fought on … Read More

Platrand

Platrand, Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

705 | “The Platrand is a long hill on the south side of the town. It was a critical section … Read More

Armoured Train Incident

Armoured Train Incident - Churchill Capture Site, Frere Area, KwaZulu-Natal

706 | On the 15th November 1899 Winston Churchill, a war correspondent for the Morning Post persuaded his friend Capt … Read More

Battle of Willow Grange

Battle of Willow Grange, Estcourt Area, KwaZulu-Natal

707 | 23 November 1899 Most southern point that a pitched battle was fought between the British and the Boers. … Read More

Clouston Koppie of Remembrance & Battle of Colenso

Clouston Koppie of Remembrance, Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal

708 | 15 December1899 Gen Sir Redvers Buller’s first attempt to cross the Thukela River and relieve Ladysmith met with … Read More

Battle of Colenso 15th December 1899 – Gun Sites

Battle of Colenso Gun Sites, Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal

709 | 15th December 1899 In the early stages of the Battle of Colenso, Co.l Long advanced his gun battery … Read More

Ambleside Military Cemetery

Ambleside Military Cemetery, Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal

710 | Burial site of soldiers of the 5th Irish Brigade, killed in Battle of Colenso. The Irish Brigade had … Read More

Battle of iNthabamnyama

Battle of iNthabamnyama, Bergville Area, KwaZulu-Natal

711 | 20 – 22 January 1900 In an attempt to turn the Boer right flank Lieut. Gen Sir Charles … Read More

Rangeworthy Military Cemetery

Rangeworthy Military Cemetery, Bergville/Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

712 | Situated below iNtabamnyama Battlefield. Many of the men who lost their lives in the above and below actions … 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.