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Why Visit the Battlefields?
- The battlefields including Isandlwana, Rorke's
Drift and Spioenkop
- Zulu history and culture
- Diverse landscapes
 Isandlwana
and Rorke's Drift are historic sites where great battles
were fought between the Zulus and the British armies.
The Anglo-Zulu war originated when the British High
Commissioner picked a fight with the Zulu King, Cetshwayo
kaMpande after the British colony having settled in
the present-day Durban, decided to venture northward
in search of trade and fortune.
The Anglo-Zulu War remains one of the most dramatic
events in British and South African history. The British
underestimated the power and strategic ingenuity of
the Zulu impis, and the war lasted longer than intended
with the British army coming under severe attack and
being defeated at a number of battles.
The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, was the longest,
the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating
war for the British between the Crimea and World War
I. It saw one of the World's smallest nations take
on the mightiest empire of the time, and defeat for
the British at Ladysmith, Colenso and most famously,
Spioenkop. One cannot hope to understand present day
South Africa, without understanding the Anglo-Boer
War and its consequences.
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