Ladysmith Accommodation
Accommodation in Ladysmith
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Things to do in Ladysmith
Next to the Town Hall, with its two imposing cannons, is the Siege Museum which displays all the mementos and documents of the Boer War. The Spioenkop Nature Reserve has the usual wild animals that can be expected in a game park and off course, the environmental aspect of seeing nature in its wildest form is always popular. Next to the nature reserve is the Spionkop Battle Site where the British and Boers fought it out during their famous war. Other battle sites in the vicinity include Rorke’s Drift and the Blood River Monument. The Soofi Mosque, described as one of the most beautiful in the southern hemisphere, has been declared a National Monument.
How to get to Ladysmith
Ladysmith is about half way between the major cities of Durban and Johannesburg on the R103. Look out for the Van Reebeck turn off which leads into the town. It’s 230 km northwest of Durban and 365 km south of Johannesburg.
History & general info about Ladysmith
Associated with the town is the world famous Grammy Award winning group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The Anglo-Boer War dominates the town’s past where the Boers conducted a famous siege in October 1899 for 118 days. The Boers were trying to stop the British from continuing north into the Boer republic of Transvaal. The young Mohandas K Ghandi, later known as Mohatma, was a stretcher bearer during that war and there is a monument of him in the town. Ladysmith was named after the wife of Sir Harry Smith, who was the Cape Colony’s first Governor.