Buffalo River

Fields of Blood

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July 4th 2010
I left Ermelo the next morning and drove down to Dundee a town in the middle of the Battlefields region. It took much longer than I expected due to road work all along the N11 -apparently its been going on for years and was supposed to be completed before the World Cup commenced. I am staying at the Royal City Inn a beautiful rambling old inn built in the late 1800's and my hostess whose da ... read more

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Dundee

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more