Battle Site

The land has been used for large-scale wheat farming for most of its history and has become known as the breadbasket of ...

The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the government rece...

In 1960 during Apartheid a large unarmed group headed to the Police Station with the intent of protesting against having...

The Battle of Muizenberg landscape has officially been declared a Provincial Heritage Site, bringing long-overdue recogn...

Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960. From 1971 to 1997 the country was officially the Republic of Zaire

 It was mounted at Middle North Battery Simon's Town in 1896 where it still exists. The gun, carriage, slide and mo...

KwaMakhutha is a township in KwaZulu-Natal, inland from Amanzimtoti, located south of Durban. Known for its strong cultu...

Bloubergstrand is a Suburb of Cape Town, 25Km North of the City! The beach at Bloubergstrand is a popular location for a...

Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu Natal and shares its name...

Matjiesfontein was founded in 1884 by the legendary and energetic Scottish railway man, James Douglas Logan. The village...

Ntabankulu is an isiXhosa word meaning "great or big mountain", since the municipal Area is mountainous in character. Th...

Siege of KimberleyThe siege of the diamond-mining town in the north-west of South Africa, between 14th October 1899 and ...

Senekal was established on 7 June 1877 on the farm De Puk in the district of Winburg. It is the panoramic Eastern Free S...

Ladysmith is located on the banks of KwaZulu-Natal's Klip River. Proclaimed in 1850, it was named after the Spanish wife...

Nquthu is an isiZulu name meaning "the back of the head". Umzinyathi District has a total area of 8 079 square Kilomet...

King Dingane’s generals, Dambuza and Ndlela kaSompisi. The Battle of Blood River Heritage Site in KwaZulu-Natal represen...

In 1847, an Irishman named; Jim Rorke bought some Land, alongside a Ford in the Buffalo River. This was the boundary bet...

the Phongolo River revealing the World`s oldest rock formations, is a game viewers paradise!

This small town in KwaZulu-Natal was, according to district records, named in honour of Earl Grey, the renowned British ...

In the Volksrust town square adjacent to the municipal buildings is a Memorial Statue and wall of Remembrance for the Bo...

Harrismith is a small, charming country town, founded in 1849, but discovered by tourists only recently. Visitors remark...

Isipingo is known as the Area where Dick King (1813-1871) was buried. He was an English Trader and Colonist in the Durba...

Town in the Wonderboom district, 3 km from north of Pretoria North, now known as Tshwane. It obtained Municipal status o...

Zwide makes a mistake by thinking that he can surprise Shaka, and hastily sends off his much greater army to fight the Z...

Melmoth, known as the gateway to the Zulu Highlands, is a picturesque, little Town just 200 km North East of Durban and ...

At Rorke's Drift the men were rewarded for their bravery with no less than 11 Victoria Crosses, the most number of Victo...

The site of the Battle of Diamond Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers...

Elandslaagte was a mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860....

next door to Church

Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch line of defence, known as the French line...

Of Zulu origin, it is said by some to mean ‘beautiful place’, and by others ‘place of dispute’. Roughly 26km east of Vry...

Ithala Game Reserve is situated immediately North-West of Louwsburg, overlooking the Pongola River Valley. The Reserve l...

Koffiefontein's proximity to Mafikeng and Kimberley meant that it became involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-190...

The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and w...

This Monument, near the Bloemfontein Zoo,, takes the form of an obelisk. It was erected as a memorial to the Canadian so...

The uMgungundlovu was formerly known as Dingane's Kraal and royal Capital. He took power, after also assassinating Shaka...

Winterton is a little Town found on the banks of the Tugela River in the foothills of the Drakensberg. Close to the Seco...

The Village of Clumber was established on land allocated in 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers fro...

The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance of Major-General ...

a Monument 2,5 km North of Graaf-Reinet. It was erected in honour of the Voortrekker leader General Andries Wilhelmus Ja...