The Kaalvoetvrou Monument and Retief’s Pass
Retief’s Pass is the route taken by Piet Retief’s party as they descended the Drakensberg and headed for Mgungundlovu, King Dingane’s capital. The Kaalvoetvrou ...
Places To Visit
Sooilaager
This was the laager established on the banks of the Little Tugela near Loskop by Hans Dons de Lange after the Zulu attack on ...
Zaailaager / Saailaager
The site of Gerrit Maritz’s laager. It was attacked by the Zulus on the 17th February 1838. The Zulus attempted to cross the Bushmans ...
Bloukrans
Following the killing of Piet Retief and his party at Mugundlovu on the 6th February 1838, King Dingane ordered his Amabutho (warriors) to attack ...
Rensburgskop Battlefield
This was the encampment of Johannes van Rensburg, Wilhelmus Pretorius and the Harmse and Loggenberg families. It was attacked at about 09h00 on the ...
Doornkop Laager site
Piet Retief and his party reached Doornkop on the 10th January, 1838 and he established a laager. He departed from here on the 25th ...
Weenen
After the Voortrekkers’ victory over King Dingane’s Amabutho at the Battle of Ncome/Blood River on the 16th December 1838, they established the Republic of ...
Marthinus Oosthuizen’s Grave
The hero of the Battle of Rensburg’s Kop. He died on the 2nd April, 1897 and lies buried on the farm Enon, which he ...
Willow Grange Battlefield
This is the furthest south that a pitched battle was fought during the Anglo-Boer War. The Boers had withdrawn a section of their force ...
Anglo-Boer War Garden of Remembrance, Estcourt
The remains of several British soldiers whose remains lay buried in scattered graves were relocated to this Garden of Remembrance in the 1960s.
Co-ordinates: S29° ...