Towns

The Dundee Diehards

Dundee, KwaZulu Natal

712D | RE-ENACTMENT GROUP The Dundee Diehards re-enactment team is a volunteer, non-profit organisation that was formed in 1999, originally … Read More

Rifle Brigade Monument at Surprise Hill

Rifle Brigade Monument at Surprise Hill, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

13L | “On the night of 10/11 December 1899 Digby-Jones RE VC blew up a Boer 4.7 inch Howitzer during … 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

Blockhouse Museum

Blockhouse Museum, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

14L | “Based on a blockhouse at Bergville, the only one remaining in KwaZulu-Natal. The McMaster’s replica contains a remarkable … 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

Ladysmith Town Hall

151 Murchison Street, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

16L | “In 1891 the Ladysmith Town Council requested proposals for a new town hall. The selected design by Robert … 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

Convent Hill

1 Convent Road, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

17L | LOOKOUT POINT FROM CONVENT HILL Convent Hill now La Verna Hospital. This position in the hospital car park … Read More

Clydesdale

Clydesdale, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

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Cove Redoubt

Cove Redoubt, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

19L | A fairly concealed position some way back along the flat crest of a hill 500 ft high, from … Read More

Gordons’ Hill

Gordons’ Hill, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

20L | This was the main Naval position: “A piece of high ground in the centre of the Northern line … Read More

Fly Kraal

Fly Kraal, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

21L | “At the Commissariat Godown, an Indian “Coolie” armed with a large umbrella constituted himself the special watcher for … Read More

Hans Dons

Hans Dons, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

22L | Johannes Hendrick De Lange was a well-known figure in Natal, having been an early Voortrekker scout into Natal … 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

Naval Gun Shield

Naval Gun Shield, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

23L | Lt Egerton was the first person to die in the Siege of Ladysmith. He was mortally wounded on … Read More

Red Hill Royal Irish Fusiliers

Red Hill Royal Irish Fusiliers, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

24L | Erected in memory of the men of the Battalion who died during the Siege of Ladysmith.

Observation Hill Leicestershire Regt Monument

Observation Hill Leicestershire Regt Monument, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

25L | “A long ridge where the rifle fire hardly ever ceased. Held by 3 Companies of the Kings Royal … Read More

Taunton

Taunton, Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal

26L | Major Charles Edmund Taunton, Natal Carabiniers, was killed in action on Nov. 3rd, 1899, in a reconnaissance from … 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